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title: The roadmap to v1 for the OpenTelemetry Collector | ||
linkTitle: Collector Roadmap | ||
date: 2024-05-06 | ||
# prettier-ignore | ||
cSpell:ignore: Antipatterns Boten Broadbridge Helmuth Hrabovcak Ishan Jaglowski OTTL Pantuza pushback Shishi Vijay | ||
author: '[Alex Boten](https://github.com/codeboten) (Honeycomb)' | ||
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The [OpenTelemetry Collector](/docs/collector/) is a very popular component in | ||
OpenTelemetry that has been under heavy development for quite some time. It is a | ||
binary that allows many formats of telemetry to be sent to it, transformed, and | ||
emitted to a destination. Much has been said about the Collector over the past | ||
few years in various blog posts and talks. Here's a small list of talks about | ||
the Collector if you haven't had the chance to learn about it: | ||
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- [Connected Observability Pipelines in the OpenTelemetry Collector - Dan Jaglowski](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPpZ23iu6kI) | ||
- [OpenTelemetry Collector Antipatterns - Adriana Villela](/blog/2024/otel-collector-anti-patterns/) | ||
- [Telemetry Showdown: Fluent Bit Vs. OpenTelemetry Collector - Henrik Rexed](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykq1F_3PmJw) | ||
- [OpenTelemetry Collector Deployment Patterns - Juraci Kröhling](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhRrwSHDBFs) | ||
- [OTTL Me Why Transforming Telemetry in the OpenTelemetry Collector Just Got Better - Tyler Helmuth & Evan Bradley](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVs0oUV72CE) | ||
- [Manage OpenTelemetry Collectors at scale with Ansible - Ishan Jain](/blog/2024/scaling-collectors/) | ||
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The Collector has been a core component for organizations looking to adopt | ||
OpenTelemetry as part of their strategy to improve the telemetry emitted by | ||
their systems. Organizations around the world have already adopted it and | ||
successfully process large amounts of data through pipelines as documented by | ||
these various talks: | ||
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- [Adopting OpenTelemetry Collector @ eBay - Swapping Engines Mid Flight - Vijay Samuel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZJd6W-CIcU) | ||
- [Ingesting 6.5 Tb of Telemetry Data Daily Through OpenTelemetry Protocol and Collectors - Gustavo Pantuza](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDysORX1zIs) | ||
- [Today, Not Tomorrow: Scalable Strategies for Migrating to OpenTelemetry - Jason Anderson & Kevin Broadbridge](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPGd9_aYu-A) | ||
- [How and Why You Should Adopt and Expose OSS Interfaces Like OTel & Prometheus - Daniel Hrabovcak & Shishi Chen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D71fK2MFreI) | ||
- [Why, How to, and Issues: Tail-Based Sampling in the OpenTelemetry Collector - Reese Lee](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4PeclHKl7I) | ||
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A few months ago, there was an | ||
[ask from the community](https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/issues/1971) | ||
to declare the OpenTelemetry Collector stable. | ||
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![Can haz Collector v1?](can-haz-collector.png) | ||
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Now you might be asking yourself "Why would anyone want the Collector to be | ||
declared stable? You just told me it's already used in production!" It's true, | ||
the Collector and its configuration have been fairly stable for core components | ||
for some time. However, being "unofficially stable" is not good enough for a | ||
wide variety of organizations who wish to adopt the Collector: | ||
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- An official v1 will signal that the OpenTelemetry community is ready to | ||
provide long term support and not introduce backwards incompatible changes | ||
without bumping the major version. | ||
- Organizations with policies not to use pre-release software will be able to | ||
start adopting the Collector. | ||
- Stability in the Collector helps the community move OpenTelemetry to become a | ||
CNCF Graduated project. | ||
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The request to stabilize was met with pushback from maintainers since calling | ||
anything 1.0 has a way of setting expectations indefinitely. This led to a | ||
series of discussions and meetings that brought together the maintainers of the | ||
Collector to decide on what a 1.0 really means for the Collector. | ||
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And after a lot of back and forth, we decided on a limited scope of what we | ||
wanted to focus on: | ||
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1. A distribution of the Collector that only includes an OTLP receiver and an | ||
OTLP exporter. | ||
2. Individual Go modules that the Collector components rely upon must also be | ||
marked as stable as per the project's | ||
[versioning guidelines](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/blob/main/VERSIONING.md#public-api-expectations). | ||
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Aside from this, there were a few areas the contributors wanted to improve based | ||
on user feedback: | ||
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- The telemetry generated by the Collector about itself: | ||
- Traces, metrics, and logs must be available via OTLP. | ||
- The configuration for the telemetry must follow the configuration schema. | ||
- The scalability of the Collector: | ||
- Handling for queueing, back pressure, and errors must be improved. | ||
- Clear benchmarks and performance expectations for end users. | ||
- Overall documentation befitting of a stable piece of critical infrastructure. | ||
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The | ||
[roadmap](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/blob/main/docs/ga-roadmap.md) | ||
was published in the Collector's repository and milestones were created to track | ||
the work underway. To ensure the effort can be successful, the scope of the | ||
deliverable was limited to provide: | ||
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- a clear and achievable goal | ||
- the focus needed to not get distracted | ||
- a signal to new contributors of where the project is focusing | ||
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There is much to do as you can see on the | ||
[project board](https://github.com/orgs/open-telemetry/projects/83), but there | ||
is a lot of excitement around this effort. If you're keen on helping, reach out | ||
either by commenting on any of the open issues in GitHub, or attending the | ||
Collector SIG call that happens weekly on Wednesdays. For a quick overview of | ||
the 1.0 progress you can checkout the tracking | ||
[issue](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/issues/9375). |
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