open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector
OpenTelemetry Collector
About the project
Vendor-agnostic telemetry collector that receives, processes and exports traces, metrics and logs in OTLP and other formats, replacing multiple separate agents.
Useful for
- Configure collection of metrics and traces from Prometheus and Jaeger into a single backend
- Deploy the Collector agent on a host to ship logs and metrics to an OTLP-compatible backend
- Verify the Collector Docker image signature with cosign before deployment
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.
Why it’s trending
- 3 stars so far today, about 8 expected by the end of the day.
- Over the last two days the pace is 2.8× that of the previous week and a half.
- GitHub Trending Go today: #5, +16 stars.
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 7,626
- Today
- 3 · ≈ 8 by evening
- Forks
- 2,273
- Issues and pull requests
- 15,215
- Watchers
- 93
- Language
- Go
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Latest release
- v0.162.0 · September 28, 2026
- Created
- May 9, 2019
- Last push
- October 1, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
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- October 1, 2026GitHub Trending Go today: #5, +16 stars
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