What's That Collector Doing?
The Collector is one of many tools that the OpenTelemetry project provides end users to use in their observability journey. It is a powerful mechanism that can help you collect telemetry in your infrastructure and it is a key component of a telemetry pipeline. The Collector helps you better understand what your systems are doing—but who watches the Collector? Let’s look at how we can understand the Collector by looking at all the signals it’s emitting.