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Co-authored-by: Patrice Chalin <[email protected]>
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title: Receive any custom metric with the OpenTelemetry Collector
linkTitle: Any Metric Receiver
date: 2023-11-28
author: '[Severinq Neumann](https://github.com/svrnm), Cisco'
author: '[Severin Neumann](https://github.com/svrnm), Cisco'
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But what if the available receivers don't meet your specific needs? Suppose you
have a collection of shell scripts that provide custom metrics, and you want to
export these to the OpenTelemetry Collector. You could write your own receiver,
but this would require proficiency in Go programming language and potentially
converting your scripts to Go.
but this would require proficiency in Go.

Before embarking on this path, consider examining the available receivers more
closely: Some of them are capable of assimilating metrics in different
formats—like
[Carbon](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/receiver/carbonreceiver),
[StatsD](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/receiver/statsdreceiver),
[InfluxDB](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/receiver/influxdbreceiver),
[Prometheus](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/receiver/prometheusreceiver)
[Prometheus](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/receiver/prometheusreceiver),
and even
[SNMP](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/receiver/snmpreceiver)—and
integrating them into the OpenTelemetry ecosystem. With minor tweaks to your
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