Bindplane Distro for OpenTelemetry Collector Overview

What is the Bindplane Distro for OpenTelemetry Collector?

The Bindplane Distro for OpenTelemetry Collector (BDOT Collector) is observIQ’s distribution of the OpenTelemetry collector. It’s the first distribution to implement the Open Agent Management Protocol (OpAMP) and is designed to be fully managed with Bindplane. The BDOT Collector is built using the OpenTelemetry Collector Builder.

Documentation

The BDOT Collector is an open source project. For more information on how the BDOT Collector works, see the documentation present in its GitHub repository.

Major Versions

V1

V1 distributions of the BDOT Collector use a custom OpAMP manager built into the BDOT Collector to interface between the OpenTelemetry collector and the OpAMP server run by Bindplane.

V2

V2 is the latest major release of the BDOT Collector. This version is currently in Beta. V2 distributions of the BDOT Collector use the OpenTelemetry OpAMP supervisor to interface between the OpenTelemetry collector and the OpAMP server run by Bindplane. For more information, see this documentation.