The Agent-Gateway Model: Best Practice OpenTelemetry Collector Architecture Explained
View the recording of Bindplane's OTel Deep Dive Workshop in August 2025.
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OpenTelemetry Collector Agent-Gateway Troubleshooting & High Availability Explained
View the recording of Bindplane's OTel Deep Dive Workshop in August 2025.
Custom OpenTelemetry Collectors: Build, Run, and Manage at Scale
I tried thinking back to when the last time I read an actual tutorial that did not include a bunch of em (—) dashes, semicolons, normal dashes, and an unnervingly large quantity of the phrases like “XYZ-thing Alert ” and “Exciting News!”. Well, hold on to your suspenders folks, here we go again. Part 2 is up and it’s a controversial one.
OpenTelemetry Deep Dive: Resilience & High Availability in the OTel Collector
Missed it live? Catch the full recording of OpenTelemetry Deep Dive: Resilience & High Availability in the OTel Collector — a 1-hour workshop on building telemetry pipelines that never drop a signal. We’ll show you why resilience matters, how to design high-availability architectures, and how to configure the OpenTelemetry Collector with retries, batching, and persistent queues. Plus, you’ll see live demos in both Docker and Kubernetes — including scaling Gateway collectors with an HPA — and how Bindplane makes large-scale management seamless.
Kafka Performance Crisis: How We Scaled OpenTelemetry Log Ingestion by 150%
When your telemetry pipeline starts falling behind, the countdown to production impact has already begun. One Bindplane customer operating a large-scale log ingestion pipeline built on the OpenTelemetry Collector and Kafka hit that breaking point. Instead of keeping pace with incoming data, their pipeline was ingesting just 12,000 events per second (EPS) per partition/collector—and this Kafka topic had 16 partitions. In aggregate, that was roughly 192K EPS.
Agent-Gateway Pattern with the OTel Collector Explained in Kubernetes
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Chaos Testing the OTel Collector's AWS S3 Receiver
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Resilience with Zero Data Loss in High-Volume Telemetry Pipelines with OpenTelemetry and Bindplane
This was the problem one Bindplane customer had with processing enormous S3-stored log files. Our engineering team tackled the problem head-on, enhancing the S3 event receiver with offset tracking and chaos testing methodologies.
How to Build Resilient Telemetry Pipelines with the OpenTelemetry Collector: High Availability and Gateway Architecture
Let’s bring that back. Today you’ll learn how to configure high availability for the OpenTelemetry Collector so you don’t lose telemetry during node failures, rolling upgrades, or traffic spikes. The guide covers both Docker and Kubernetes samples with hands-on demos of configs. But first, let’s lay some groundwork.
Building and Using a Custom #OpenTelemetry #Collector with #Bindplane
Check out the full @bindplane community call in June. We explore building custom OpenTelemetry collectors with the OpenTelemetry Distribution Builder and using Bindplane's new Bring Your Own Collector feature. We showcase source and destination compatibility within Bindplane and how BYOC does not let you misconfigure a custom built collector.