EDOT Collector

The Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry (EDOT) Collector is an open-source distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector.

Built on OpenTelemetry’s modular architecture, the EDOT Collector offers a curated and fully supported selection of Receivers, Processors, Exporters, and Extensions. Designed for production-grade reliability.

🚀 Get started

The quickest way to get started with EDOT is to follow our quickstart guide.

🎛️ Collector configuration

The EDOT collector can be configured using the standard OTel collector configuration file or values.yml if you have deployed using Helm.

For full details on each option visit this page

🧩 EDOT Collector components

The Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry (EDOT) Collector is built on OpenTelemetry’s modular architecture, integrating a carefully curated selection of Receivers, Processors, Exporters, and Extensions to ensure stability, scalability, and seamless observability.

Visit this page for the full list of OTel Collector components embedded in the EDOT Collector.

To request a component to be added to EDOT Collector, please submit a GitHub issue here.

Collector Limitations

The EDOT collector has some limitations which are mostly inherited from the upstream components, see the full list here before troubleshooting.

📄 License

View details of license for EDOT Collector.