The adoption of monitoring practices increased IT organizations’ awareness and efforts to find ways to gather telemetry across multiple technologies and platforms.

Unfortunately, there are situations where parts of the stack of the monitored systems provide telemetry in a proprietary format creating silos of telemetry which directly impacts operations teams’ ability to build a single and consolidated approach to visualize, analyze and act based on the telemetry signals across the whole system.

OpenTelemetry Pipelines provide a powerful way to enable developers to gather, map, and transform telemetry data across different formats, and a Receiver is the first step into it.

This tutorial is meant to help you understand all the building blocks involved in building your first OpenTelemetry Receiver.