# open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector

> Vendor-agnostic telemetry collector that receives, processes and exports traces, metrics and logs in OTLP and other formats, replacing multiple separate agents.

- Magnitude: 1.7 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 7,626 total · +3 stars today, ≈ 7 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: DevOps & infrastructure · Language: Go · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2019-05-09 · Last push: 2026-10-01
- GitHub: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector · Homepage: https://opentelemetry.io · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector

## 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

## Why it’s here

- 3 stars so far today, about 7 expected by the end of the day.
- Over the last two days the pace is 2.7× that of the previous week and a half.
- GitHub Trending Go today: #5, +16 stars.

## 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: 2,273
- Issues and pull requests: 15,215
- Watchers: 93
- Average over the last week: 5 per day
- Usual pace: 5 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 0
- Latest release: v0.162.0 (2026-09-28)

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

2026-09-02 … 2026-10-01: 9, 2, 4, 2, 2, 8, 6, 5, 4, 7, 18, 3, 2, 6, 3, 7, 9, 2, 1, 5, 7, 5, 3, 2, 4, 1, 5, 3, 15, 3

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending Go today: #5, +16 stars

## Similar by description

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   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.
   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib.md
2. **DataDog/datadog-agent** — 0.3 · Quiet · DevOps & infrastructure · Go · +0 stars today, ≈ 0 by evening
   Source code of Datadog Agent v6 and v7 — an agent that collects metrics, logs and traces from hosts and containers and ships them to the Datadog platform.
   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/DataDog/datadog-agent.md

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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 2026-10-01 13:52 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.