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Kafka Receiver

OpenTelemetry Collector receiver · contrib distribution

The Kafka Receiver receives telemetry data from Kafka, with configurable topics and encodings. If used in conjunction with the kafkaexporter configured with include_metadata_keys, The Kafka Receiver will also propagate the Kafka headers to the downstream pipeline, giving access to the rest of the pipeline to arbitrary metadata keys and values.

  • Component ID: contrib-kafkareceiver
  • Name: kafkareceiver
  • Type: receiver
  • Distribution: contrib
  • Repository: opentelemetry-collector-contrib

Stability

LevelSignals
betalogs, metrics, traces
developmentprofiles

Attributes

AttributeTypeDescription
node_idintThe Kafka node ID.
outcomestringThe operation outcome.
partitionintThe Kafka topic partition.
topicstringThe Kafka topic.

Data

  • JSON: /data/collector/components/contrib-kafkareceiver/contrib-kafkareceiver-c3cad6db1194.json
  • Explore: /collector/components/contrib/kafkareceiver