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    <a href="https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/about/">Getting Started<a/>
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    <a href="https://github.com/open-telemetry/community#agentcollector">Getting Involved<a/>
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    <a href="docs/vision.md">Vision<a/>
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### OpenTelemetry Collector

The OpenTelemetry Collector offers a vendor-agnostic implementation on how to receive, process, and export telemetry data. In addition, it removes the need to run, operate, and maintain multiple agents/collectors in order to support open-source telemetry data formats (e.g. Jaeger, Prometheus, etc.) sending to multiple open-source or commercial back-ends.

Objectives:

- Usable: Reasonable default configuration, supports popular protocols, runs and collects out of the box.
- Performant: Highly stable and performant under varying loads and configurations.
- Observable: An exemplar of an observable service.
- Extensible: Customizable without touching the core code.
- Unified: Single codebase, deployable as an agent or collector with support for traces, metrics, and logs (future).

### Community Roles

Approvers ([@open-telemetry/collector-approvers](https://github.com/orgs/open-telemetry/teams/collector-approvers)):

- [Owais Lone](https://github.com/owais), Splunk
- [Rahul Patel](https://github.com/rghetia), Google
- [Steve Flanders](https://github.com/flands), Splunk
- [James Bebbington](https://github.com/james-bebbington), Google
- [Dmitrii Anoshin](https://github.com/dmitryax), Splunk

Maintainers ([@open-telemetry/collector-maintainers](https://github.com/orgs/open-telemetry/teams/collector-maintainers)):

- [Bogdan Drutu](https://github.com/BogdanDrutu), Splunk
- [Paulo Janotti](https://github.com/pjanotti), Splunk
- [Tigran Najaryan](https://github.com/tigrannajaryan), Splunk

Learn more about roles in the [community repository](https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/blob/master/community-membership.md).

Thanks to all the people who already contributed!

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