Source

Caution

Full concept page lands in Sprint 36 (DOCS.10).

A source is an inbound receiver: syslog, OTLP gRPC/HTTP, file tail, journald, Kafka, and the rest of the OTel ecosystem.

Activating a source on a collector creates a Source Activation — the per-collector configuration of that receiver (port, parser, filters, resource attributes).

A single source type (e.g. syslog) can be activated multiple times on the same collector with different settings.