Skywalking Receiver

Available in: contrib Maintainers: @JaredTan95 Source: opentelemetry-collector-contrib

Supported Telemetry

Overview

Note: The current metrics receiver only supports receiving JVM data.

Prerequisites

This receiver supports Apache Skywalking-Java Agent version 8.9.0+

Getting Started

By default, the Skywalking receiver will not serve any protocol. A protocol must be named under the protocols object for the Skywalking receiver to start. The below protocols are supported, each supports an optional endpoint object configuration parameter.

grpc (default endpoint = localhost:11800)
http (default endpoint = localhost:12800)

See our security best practices doc to understand how to set the endpoint in different environments. Examples:

receivers:
  skywalking:
    protocols:
      grpc:
        endpoint: 0.0.0.0:11800
      http:
        endpoint: 0.0.0.0:12800

service:
  pipelines:
    traces:
      receivers: [skywalking]
    metrics:
      receivers: [skywalking]

Semantic Convention Migration

A feature gate translator.skywalking.useStableSemconv controls the migration from legacy to stable semantic conventions (v1.38.0). To opt-in to the new semantic conventions, enable the gate: --feature-gates translator.skywalking.useStableSemconv When enabled, the following output attribute names will change:

http.url is now url.full
http.status_code is now http.response.status_code
db.system is now db.system.name
db.name is now db.namespace
net.peer.name is now server.address

This affects the Skywalking receiver and Skywalking encoding extension. See migration guides:

Configuration

Example Configuration

# The following demonstrates how to enable protocols with defaults.
skywalking/defaults:
  protocols:
    grpc:
skywalking:
  protocols:
    grpc:
      endpoint: 0.0.0.0:11800
    http:
      endpoint: 0.0.0.0:12800
skywalking/customname:
  protocols:
    http:
      endpoint: 0.0.0.0:12801

Last generated: 2026-08-24

​Skywalking Receiver

​Supported Telemetry

​Overview

​Prerequisites

​Getting Started

​Semantic Convention Migration

​Configuration

​Example Configuration