OpenTelemetry Collector Official Releases
The OpenTelemetry Collector Releases repository assembles official distributions of the OpenTelemetry Collector, a tool for collecting, processing, and exporting telemetry data. The project provides five distinct distributions—Core, Contrib, Kubernetes, OTLP-only, and eBPF Profiler—each tailored to specific use cases, along with binaries, container images, and packages for multiple platforms and architectures. The repository is maintained by the Collector SIG (special interest group) and includes contributions from engineers at companies including Honeycomb, Elastic, Splunk, Snowflake, Dynatrace, DataDog, and Grafana Labs. The project is built in Go and uses GoReleaser for packaging, with testing infrastructure based on Docker and golden file comparisons for validating telemetry signal outputs.