This distribution only contains the receiver and exporters for the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), including both gRPC and HTTP transport.

Unlike the Core and Contrib distributions, this distribution does not provide a default configuration file, and one will need to be created. The location of the config file is specified with the --config command line option.

• For the .deb/.rpm systemd service packages, the command line options are set in /etc/otelcol-otlp/otelcol-otlp.conf, and the default config path is /etc/otelcol-otlp/config.yaml.

• For the Windows installer, the command line options are set during the install process, and the default config path is %ProgramW6432%\OpenTelemetry Collector\config.yaml.

• For the Docker images, the command line options are blank by default, and must be specified with a CMD directive.

  Example: CMD ["--config", "/etc/otelcol-otlp/config.yaml"]

The full list of components is available in the manifest

• Only otlpreceiver, otlpexporter, and otlphttpexporter are allowed.