# Carbon Receiver

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> OpenTelemetry Collector receiver · contrib distribution

The [Carbon](https://github.com/graphite-project/carbon) Receiver supports Carbon's [plaintext protocol](https://graphite.readthedocs.io/en/stable/feeding-carbon.html#the-plaintext-protocol).

- **Component ID**: `contrib-carbonreceiver`
- **Name**: `carbonreceiver`
- **Type**: receiver
- **Distribution**: contrib
- **Repository**: `opentelemetry-collector-contrib`

## Stability

| Level | Signals |
| --- | --- |
| beta | metrics |

## Data

- **JSON**: [/data/collector/components/contrib-carbonreceiver/contrib-carbonreceiver-c0e6095c3153.json](/data/collector/components/contrib-carbonreceiver/contrib-carbonreceiver-c0e6095c3153.json)
- **Explore**: [/collector/components/contrib/carbonreceiver](/collector/components/contrib/carbonreceiver)