OpenTelemetry Collector distributions compared: Core, Contrib, OCB, and vendor builds. Which one should you use?
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If someone has told you to “use the OpenTelemetry Collector,” you may have noticed there is no single thing to download. There’s a lean default build. There’s a much larger repository of hundreds of community-contributed components. There’s a builder tool that lets you assemble your own binary. And there’s a growing set of vendor distributions, […] The post OpenTelemetry Collector distributions…
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