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Namedpipe Receiver

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

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Supported Telemetry

Logs

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Overview

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Prerequisites

Named pipes are only supported on Unix operating systems.

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Configuration

The following settings are required:
  • path: The path to open the named pipe at.
The following settings are optional:
  • mode: The mode bits to set on the opened pipe (default: 0666)

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Example Configuration

receivers:
  named_pipe:
    path: /tmp/pipe
    mode: 0600
The deprecated component type namedpipe is still accepted: 
receivers:
  namedpipe:
    path: /tmp/pipe
    mode: 0600

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Configuration

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Example Configuration

named_pipe:
  path: /tmp/pipe
  mode: 0600
  encoding: utf-8
Last generated: 2026-04-20