Author: Robert
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Understanding the OpenTelemetry Collector: Your “Single Point of Entry” for Telemetry Data
Buckle up — it’s going to be an insightful (and slightly nerdy) ride! 🚀 In this special blog collaboration with Martin Holt from Callista, a developer and architect with a deep interest in Java and Kafka, we’re diving deep into the world of OpenTelemetry. After you have understood the OTEL Collector (you only need to…
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Reading multiline log files using OpenTelemetry Collector’s logfilereceiver
Imagine having a log file with the following content that we want to log to a Grafana Loki or OpenSearch or similar tool to start analyzing the logs in real-time using OpenTelemetry: The only thing we need to do is to setup our OpenTelemetry Collector to use the filelogreceiver like this. That tells the OTEL…