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Roundrobin Connector

Status Available in: contrib, k8s Maintainers: @bogdandrutu Source: opentelemetry-collector-contrib

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Overview

The roundrobin connector can fork pipelines of the same type and equally split the load between them.

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Configuration

If you are not already familiar with connectors, you may find it helpful to first visit the Connectors README. The roundrobin connector does not have any configuration settings. 
receivers:
  otlp:
exporters:
  prometheusremotewrite/1:
  prometheusremotewrite/2:
connectors:
  roundrobin:
Preprocess data, then export using multiple exporter instances to scale the throughput if the exporter does not support scale well (e.g. prometheusremotewrite). 
receivers:
  otlp:
processors:
  resourcedetection:
exporters:
  prometheusremotewrite/1:
  prometheusremotewrite/2:
connectors:
  roundrobin:
service:
  pipelines:
    metrics:
      receivers: [otlp]
      processors: [resourcedetection]
      exporters: [roundrobin]
    metrics/1:
      receivers: [roundrobin]
      exporters: [prometheusremotewrite/1]
    metrics/2:
      receivers: [roundrobin]
      exporters: [prometheusremotewrite/2]
Last generated: 2026-04-13