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Envoyals Receiver

Status Available in: contrib Maintainers: @evan-bradley, @zirain Source: opentelemetry-collector-contrib

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Supported Telemetry

Logs

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Overview

Envoy ALS (Access Log Service) is a feature of Envoy Proxy that allows for the centralized collection and management of access logs. Instead of writing access logs to local files, Envoy can be configured to send these logs to a remote gRPC service. This is particularly useful in distributed systems where centralized logging is required for monitoring, auditing, and debugging purposes. Istio and Envoy Gateway support OTLP and gRPC ALS with first class API.

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Getting Started

The settings are:
  • endpoint (required, default = localhost:19001 gRPC protocol): host:port to which the receiver is going to receive data. See our security best practices doc to understand how to set the endpoint in different environments.
Example: 
receivers:
  envoyals:
    endpoint: 0.0.0.0:3500

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Advanced Configuration

Other options can be configured to support more advanced use cases:

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Configuration

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Example Configuration

# The following demonstrates how to enable protocols with defaults.
envoyals/defaults:

envoyals/custom:
  endpoint: localhost:4600
Last generated: 2026-04-13