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OpenTelemetry Collector: What It Is, When You Need It, and When You Don't

OpenTelemetry Collector: What It Is, When You Need It, and When You Don't

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·September 18, 2025
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I happen to work with otel a lot so I'll offer a few of my thoughts:

- Consider decoupling your collector from whatever is consuming your traces with something like kafka. Traces can be pretty heavy and it can be tricky to scale collectors. If something goes down, it's probably a good idea to continue writing the traces to queue or topic.

- https://www.otelbin.io is a nice little tool to help with collector configuration