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The Pipeline

A river without banks is a flood.
The pipeline gives telemetry its path:
where to enter, how to flow, where to arrive.
receivers
otlp
processors
batch
exporters
otlp
otel-collector-config.yaml
1receivers:
2  otlp:
3    protocols:
4      grpc:
5 
6processors:
7  batch:
8 
9exporters:
10  otlp:
11    endpoint: "jaeger:4317"
12 
13service:
14  pipelines:
15    traces:
16        receivers:  [ ]
17        processors:  [ ]
18        exporters:  [ ]

The pipeline connects receivers to processors to exporters. What does this mean?

The pipeline is the Collector's blueprint.

YAML tells it: where to listen, how to process, where to send.

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