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Wavefront Receiver

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

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Supported Telemetry

Metrics

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Overview

The Wavefront receiver accepts metrics and depends on carbonreceiver proto and transport, It’s very similar to Carbon: it is TCP based in which each received text line represents a single metric data point. They differ on the format of their textual representation. The Wavefront receiver leverages the Carbon receiver code by implementing a dedicated parser for its format. The receiver receives the string with Wavefront metric data, and transforms it to the collector metric format. See https://docs.wavefront.com/wavefront_data_format.html#metrics-data-format-syntax. Each line received represents a Wavefront metric in the following format: <metricName> <metricValue> [<timestamp>] source=<source> [pointTags]
:information_source: The wavefront receiver is based on Carbon and binds to the same port by default. This means the carbon and wavefront receivers cannot both be enabled with their respective default configurations. To support running both receivers in parallel, change the endpoint port on one of the receivers.

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Configuration

The following settings are required:
  • endpoint (default = 0.0.0.0:2003): Address and port that the receiver should bind to.
The following setting are optional:
  • extract_collectd_tags (default = false): Instructs the Wavefront receiver to attempt to extract tags in the CollectD format from the metric name.
  • tcp_idle_timeout (default = 30s): The maximum duration that a tcp connection will idle wait for new data.
Example: 
receivers:
  wavefront:
  wavefront/allsettings:
    endpoint: localhost:8080
    tcp_idle_timeout: 5s
    extract_collectd_tags: true
The full list of settings exposed for this receiver are documented in config.go with detailed sample configurations in testdata/config.yaml.

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Configuration

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Example Configuration

wavefront:
wavefront/allsettings:
  # endpoint specifies the network interface and port which will receive
  # Wavefront data.
  endpoint: localhost:8080
  # tcp_idle_timeout is max duration that a tcp connection will idle wait for
  # new data. The default value is 30 seconds.
  tcp_idle_timeout: 5s
  # extract_collectd_tags instructs the Wavefront receiver to attempt to extract
  # tags in the CollectD format from the metric name. The default is false.
  extract_collectd_tags: true
Last generated: 2026-04-13