# Kubelet Stats Receiver

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> OpenTelemetry Collector receiver · contrib distribution

The Kubelet Stats Receiver pulls node, pod, container, and volume metrics from the API server on a kubelet and sends it down the metric pipeline for further processing.

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

## Stability

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

## Attributes

| Attribute | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `direction` | string | Direction of flow of bytes/operations (receive or transmit). |
| `fs.type` | string | The type of filesystem component. |
| `interface` | string | Name of the network interface. |

## Data

- **JSON**: [/data/collector/components/contrib-kubeletstatsreceiver/contrib-kubeletstatsreceiver-b85b66e473af.json](/data/collector/components/contrib-kubeletstatsreceiver/contrib-kubeletstatsreceiver-b85b66e473af.json)
- **Explore**: [/collector/components/contrib/kubeletstatsreceiver](/collector/components/contrib/kubeletstatsreceiver)