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Carbon Receiver

Status Available in: contrib Maintainers: @atoulme Source: opentelemetry-collector-contrib

Supported Telemetry

Metrics

Overview

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 either tcp or udp.
The following setting are optional:
  • 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 not tcp.
In addition, a parser section can be defined with the following settings:
  • type (default plaintext): Specifies the type of parser to be used and must be either plaintext or regex.
  • config: Specifies any special configuration of the selected parser.
Example:
The full list of settings exposed for this receiver are documented in config.go with detailed sample configurations in testdata/config.yaml.

Configuration

Example Configuration


Last generated: 2026-10-05