What Is an OpenTelemetry Receiver?
A receiver is the entry point of a collector pipeline, accepting telemetry from sources over a particular protocol. It may listen for data pushed by applications or actively scrape targets, then hand the signals to the processors that follow. A collector can run many receivers to take in data from varied sources at once.
Why it matters
Sources emit telemetry in different formats and transports. Receivers normalize that intake so the rest of the pipeline can treat all incoming data uniformly.
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