Deploy the Collector

Patterns you can apply to deploy the OpenTelemetry Collector

Estás viendo la versión en inglés de está página porque aún no ha sido traducida. ¿Te interesa ayudar? Mira en Contribuir.

The OpenTelemetry Collector consists of a single binary that you can deploy in different ways for different use cases. This section describes common deployment patterns, their use cases, and pros and cons. It also provides best practices for configuring the Collector in cross-environment and multi-backend scenarios. For deployment-related security considerations, see the Collector hosting best practices.

Additional resources


No Collector

Why and how to send signals directly from an application to backends

Agent

Why and how to send signals to collectors and from there to backends

Gateway

Learn why and how to send signals first to a single OTLP endpoint and then to backends


Última modificación November 26, 2025: docs: copy edit deployment pages (#8400) (d00e8f37)