Building custom components

Instructions on how to build your own collector components

The OpenTelemetry Collector can not only be extended by existing components, but also by custom components, that you develop and build on your own. Here you will find instructions on how to build some of those components. For additional details take a look into the documents contained within the opentelemetry-collector-contrib repository.

Building a receiver

Building a Connector

Building an authenticator extension

Last modified December 14, 2023: Add 'Building' section to collector docs (#3680) (a4ebdf62)