# OpenTelemetry Collector API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/opentelemetry/opentelemetry-collector-api/  
**Provider:** OpenTelemetry — https://apis.io/providers/opentelemetry/  
**Documentation:** https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/

OpenTelemetry Collector API is one of 6 APIs that [OpenTelemetry](https://apis.io/providers/opentelemetry/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Collector, Configuration, Observability, and Pipeline. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an API reference, and a GitHub repository.

The OpenTelemetry Collector is a vendor-agnostic proxy for receiving, processing, and exporting telemetry data. It exposes HTTP and gRPC endpoints for receiving OTLP data and provides a configuration API for managing pipelines, receivers, processors, and exporters at runtime via the zPages diagnostic extension and config file hot-reloading.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/
- **Reference** — https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/configuration/
- **GitHubRepository** — https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector

## Other OpenTelemetry APIs (5)

- [OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) gRPC API](https://apis.io/apis/opentelemetry/opentelemetry-protocol-otlp-grpc-api/)
- [OpenTelemetry SDK API](https://apis.io/apis/opentelemetry/opentelemetry-sdk-api/)
- [OpenTelemetry Logs API](https://apis.io/apis/opentelemetry/opentelemetry-logs-api/)
- [OpenTelemetry Metrics API](https://apis.io/apis/opentelemetry/opentelemetry-metrics-api/)
- [OpenTelemetry Traces API](https://apis.io/apis/opentelemetry/opentelemetry-traces-api/)

## Tags

Collector, Configuration, Observability, Pipeline

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