opentelemetry-collector/service/documentation.md

service

Internal Telemetry

The following telemetry is emitted by this component.

otelcol.connector.consumed.items

Number of items passed to the connector.

Unit	Metric Type	Value Type	Monotonic
{item}	Sum	Int	true

otelcol.connector.produced.items

Number of items emitted from the connector.

Unit	Metric Type	Value Type	Monotonic
{item}	Sum	Int	true

otelcol.exporter.consumed.items

Number of items passed to the exporter.

Unit	Metric Type	Value Type	Monotonic
{item}	Sum	Int	true

otelcol_process_cpu_seconds

Total CPU user and system time in seconds [alpha]

Unit	Metric Type	Value Type	Monotonic
s	Sum	Double	true

otelcol_process_memory_rss

Total physical memory (resident set size) [alpha]

Unit	Metric Type	Value Type
By	Gauge	Int

otelcol_process_runtime_heap_alloc_bytes

Bytes of allocated heap objects (see 'go doc runtime.MemStats.HeapAlloc') [alpha]

Unit	Metric Type	Value Type
By	Gauge	Int

otelcol_process_runtime_total_alloc_bytes

Cumulative bytes allocated for heap objects (see 'go doc runtime.MemStats.TotalAlloc') [alpha]

Unit	Metric Type	Value Type	Monotonic
By	Sum	Int	true

otelcol_process_runtime_total_sys_memory_bytes

Total bytes of memory obtained from the OS (see 'go doc runtime.MemStats.Sys') [alpha]

Unit	Metric Type	Value Type
By	Gauge	Int

otelcol_process_uptime

Uptime of the process [alpha]

Unit	Metric Type	Value Type	Monotonic
s	Sum	Double	true

otelcol.processor.consumed.items

Number of items passed to the processor.

Unit	Metric Type	Value Type	Monotonic
{item}	Sum	Int	true

otelcol.processor.produced.items

Number of items emitted from the processor.

Unit	Metric Type	Value Type	Monotonic
{item}	Sum	Int	true

otelcol.receiver.produced.items

Number of items emitted from the receiver.

Unit	Metric Type	Value Type	Monotonic
{item}	Sum	Int	true