otelcol

OpenTelemetry Collector for telemetry processing.

Ubuntu Debian Fedora RHEL Arch

Verified: 2026-05-11

Syntax

$otelcol --config FILE

Examples

$otelcol --config /etc/otelcol/config.yaml

$otelcol --set=service.telemetry.logs.level=debug --config /etc/otelcol/config.yaml

Typical use cases

Standard usage

otelcol --help

Note Receives, transforms and exports metrics/logs/traces via unified pipelines.

Export