Namedpipe Receiver

Available in: contrib Maintainers: @sinkingpoint Source: opentelemetry-collector-contrib

Supported Telemetry

Named pipes are only supported on Unix operating systems.

The following settings are required:

The following settings are optional:

receivers:
  named_pipe:
    path: /tmp/pipe
    mode: 0600

The deprecated component type namedpipe is still accepted:

receivers:
  namedpipe:
    path: /tmp/pipe
    mode: 0600

named_pipe:
  path: /tmp/pipe
  mode: 0600
  encoding: utf-8

Last generated: 2026-08-24