Rotel - Lightweight OpenTelemetry Collector

What is Rotel?

Rotel is a high-performance OpenTelemetry collector designed for speed and efficiency. Built with Rust, it provides a lightweight solution for collecting, processing, and exporting telemetry data with minimal overhead. Perfect for resource-constrained environments and performance-critical applications.

Supports metrics, logs, and traces
OTLP receiver supporting gRPC, HTTP/Protobuf, and HTTP/JSON
OTLP exporter supporting gRPC and HTTP/Protobuf
Built-in batching and retry mechanisms
Clickhouse and Datadog exporters

Rotel can be easily bundled with popular runtimes as packages. Its Rust implementation ensures minimal resource usage and a compact binary size, simplifying deployment without the need for a sidecar container.

Python

Python client library

pyrotel

Node.js

JavaScript integration

rotel-nodejs

Lambda

AWS Lambda extension

rotel-lambda-extension

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