Carbon Receiver
contrib
Maintainers: @atoulme
Source: opentelemetry-collector-contrib
Supported Telemetry
Overview
:information_source: Thewavefrontreceiver is based on Carbon and binds to the same port by default. This means thecarbonandwavefrontreceivers cannot both be enabled with their respective default configurations. To support running both receivers in parallel, change theendpointport on one of the receivers.
Configuration
The following settings are required:endpoint(default =0.0.0.0:2003): Address and port that the receiver should bind to.transport(default =tcp): Must be eithertcporudp.
tcp_idle_timeout(default =30s): The maximum duration that a tcp connection will idle wait for new data. This value is ignored if the transport is nottcp.
parser section can be defined with the following settings:
type(defaultplaintext): Specifies the type of parser to be used and must be eitherplaintextorregex.config: Specifies any special configuration of the selected parser.
Configuration
Example Configuration
Last generated: 2026-04-13