# open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib

> Repository of additional components (receivers, processors, exporters, extensions) for the OpenTelemetry Collector that are not part of the core. Used to collect, process, and export telemetry (traces, metrics, logs) from diverse sources.

- Magnitude: 0.6 out of 10 — Quiet
- Stars: 5,034 total · +0 stars measured 2026-11-02, 00:16–23:14 UTC
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: DevOps & infrastructure · Language: Go · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2019-07-11 · Last push: 2026-11-02
- GitHub: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib · Homepage: https://opentelemetry.io · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib

## Useful for

- Build a custom Collector distribution with needed components via OpenTelemetry Collector Builder
- Wire up a receiver for a non-standard telemetry source and export data to a backend
- Add a processor to filter or enrich traces, metrics, and logs before export

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-02 (UTC), 00:16–23:14: 5034 → 5034 stars (+0). This is the change over that interval.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @dsyme (1,328 followers).

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 4,078
- Issues and pull requests: 51,928
- Watchers: 64
- Average over the last week: 2 per day
- Usual pace: 2 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 0
- Latest release: v0.164.1 (2026-10-26)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-04 … 2026-11-02: 0, 0, 7, 4, 4, 2, 1, 5, 3, 3, 3, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 4, 2, 2, 1, 1, 4, 3, 5, 5, 3, 0, 1, 0, 0

## Magnitude by day, last 14 days

10-20 1.0, 10-21 1.3, 10-22 1.0, 10-23 1.3, 10-24 1.1, 10-25 1.4, 10-26 1.5, 10-27 1.2, 10-28 1.3, 10-29 1.5, 10-30 1.3, 10-31 1.0, 11-01 1.0, 11-02 0.6

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-11-02 23:16 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.