From the course: Mastering Observability with OpenTelemetry
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Installing a local Collector - OpenTelemetry Tutorial
From the course: Mastering Observability with OpenTelemetry
Installing a local Collector
- [Instructor] When you search for Open Telemetry collector, you will end up on this page. And there, I will now click on Install the Collector. The Open Telemetry collector can be installed or deployed with various methods, from running it in Docker to deploying it via Kubernetes. Running it in Docker might be an intuitive choice for our setup, but it would get pretty complicated as we would end up with two containers, collector and giga, and they would need to communicate with each other. So, I chose an easy route. We will simply use the standalone executable for our system. For that, I will just use the right navigation here and look for my operating system, and it's a Mac. And there I already see a curl command to download and install this collector, but we won't use this one. The collector comes in two flavors. One is the stock one, here, and the other one is called contrib and contains various third-party extensions. We have to install the contrib version and to get it, I click…
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