Quickstart Guide

What is Bindplane?

Bindplane Observability Pipeline gives you the ability to collect, refine, and ship metrics, logs, and traces to any destination. Bindplane provides the controls you need to reduce observability costs and simplify the deployment and management of telemetry collectors at scale.

To get started with Bindplane, see our Getting Started guide for a quick and easy deployment. If you need more advanced deployment configurations such as Kubernetes, TLS or if you will be using a proxy, check out the advanced installation page.

Features

• Manage the lifecycle of telemetry collectors, starting with the Bindplane Collector, a distribution of OpenTelemetry.
• Build, deploy, and manage telemetry configurations for different Sources and deploy them to your collectors
• Ship metric, log, and trace data to one or many Destinations
• Utilize flow controls to adjust the flow of your data in real-time

Architecture

Bindplane is a lightweight web server (no dependencies) that you can deploy anywhere in your environment. It's composed of the following components:

• GraphQL Server: provides configuration and collector details via GraphQL
• REST Server: BindPlane CLI and UI make requests to the server via REST
• WebSocket Server: Collectors connect to receive configuration updates via OpAMP
• Store: pluggable storage manages configuration and Collector state
• Manager: dispatches configuration changes to Collectors