Collector components: Exporters

Learn about the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector exporters.

The Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector includes the exporters listed in the following table. To see other components, refer to Collector components.

Note: This table might be out of date. For a complete list of collector components, including components that aren't included in the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector, see opentelemetry-collector-contrib.
Important:

New names for multi-word components

There is an ongoing effort upstream to rename all multi-word component names to use "snake casing" (in other words, underscores between words). The following table lists the renamed exporters that the Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector currently conforms to:

Old name New name
googlecloudstorage google_cloud_storage
otlp otlp_grpc
otlphttp otlp_http

Name

Description

Pipeline types

AWS S3 exporter (awss3)

This exporter targets to support proto/JSON format.

Metrics, logs, traces
Debug exporter (debug) Writes telemetry data to the console for debugging purposes. Metrics, logs, traces

File exporter (file)

Writes pipeline data to a JSON file in Protobuf JSON encoding using the OpenTelemetry protocol.

Metrics, logs, traces

Kafka exporter (kafka)

Exports metrics, logs, and traces to Kafka using a synchronous producer.

Metrics, logs, traces

Load balancing exporter (loadbalancing)

Exports metrics, logs, and traces to different back-ends.

Metrics, logs, traces

OTLP exporter (otlp_grpc)

Exports data through gRPC using the OTLP format. By default, this exporter requires TLS and provides queued retry capabilities.

Metrics, logs, traces

OTLP/HTTP exporter (otlp_http)

Exports data in OTLP format over the HTTP protocol.

Metrics, logs, traces

Pulsar exporter (pulsar)

Exports logs, metrics, and traces to Pulsar.

Metrics, logs, traces

SignalFx exporter (signalfx)

Sends metrics, events, and trace correlation to Splunk Observability Cloud.

Logs (events), metrics, traces (trace to metric correlation only)

Splunk HEC exporter (splunk_hec)

Sends telemetry to a Splunk HEC endpoint.

Metrics, logs, traces