Compatibility & Support - OTel Collectors
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EDOT Collector
EDOT Collector Compatibility - Elastic Stack
The following table gives an overview of compatibility and support of EDOT Collector versions with Elastic Stack versions.
| EDOT Collector Version | Elastic Stack | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| < 8.16 | 8.16 - 8.17 | 8.18 | 8.19 | 9.0 | |
| 8.x | ❌ | 🟡 | 🟡 | 🟡 | 🟡 |
| 9.0 | ❌ | 🟡 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
EDOT Collector Compatibility - Components
The components included in the EDOT Collector are categorized into Core and Extended components:
| Component | GitHub Repo | EDOTCol 8.x | EDOTCol 9.x |
|---|---|---|---|
| Receivers | |||
| filelogreceiver | OTel Contrib Repo | 🟡 Extended | ✅ Core (since 9.0) |
| hostmetricsreceiver | OTel Contrib Repo | 🟡 Extended | ✅ Core (since 9.0) |
| k8sclusterreceiver | OTel Contrib Repo | 🟡 Extended | ✅ Core (since 9.0) |
| k8sobjectsreceiver | OTel Contrib Repo | 🟡 Extended | ✅ Core (since 9.0) |
| kubeletstatsreceiver | OTel Contrib Repo | 🟡 Extended | ✅ Core (since 9.0) |
| otlpreceiver | OTel Core Repo | 🟡 Extended | ✅ Core (since 9.0) |
| Exporters | |||
| elasticsearchexporter | OTel Contrib Repo | 🟡 Extended | ✅ Core (since 9.0) |
| otlpexporter | OTel Core Repo | 🟡 Extended | ✅ Core (since 9.0) |
| Processors | |||
| attributesprocessor | OTel Contrib Repo | 🟡 Extended | ✅ Core (since 9.0) |
| batchprocessor | OTel Core Repo | 🟡 Extended | ✅ Core (since 9.0) |
| elasticinframetricsprocessor | Elastic Repo | 🟡 Extended | ✅ Core (since 9.0) |
| elastictraceprocessor | Elastic Repo | 🟡 Extended | ✅ Core (since 9.0) |
| k8sattributesprocessor | OTel Contrib Repo | 🟡 Extended | ✅ Core (since 9.0) |
| resourceprocessor | OTel Contrib Repo | 🟡 Extended | ✅ Core (since 9.0) |
| resourcedetectionprocessor | OTel Contrib Repo | 🟡 Extended | ✅ Core (since 9.0) |
| Connectors | |||
| elasticapmconnector | Elastic Repo | 🟡 Extended | ✅ Core (since 9.0) |
| routingconnector | OTel Contrib Repo | 🟡 Extended | ✅ Core (since 9.0) |
See the full list of Core & Extended EDOT Collector components here.
EDOT Collector Compatibility - Operating Systems
The following table gives an overview of compatibility and support of EDOT Collector versions with different operating systems.
| EDOT Collector Version | Linux/arm64 | Linux/amd64 | Windows | macOS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8.x | 🟡 | 🟡 | 🟡 | 🟡 |
| 9.x | ✅ | ✅ | 🟡 | 🟡 |
Other Collector Distributions
Other, non-EDOT distributions of the OTel Collector (such as custom Collector builds, upstream Collector distributions, etc.) are not officially supported through Elastic but deemed technically compatible (🟡) if they contain the required OTel Collector components and are configured analogously to the EDOT Collector.
Required components and configuration options per use case can be retrieved from the sample configuration files for the EDOT Collector.