What does the Collector do?
It gathers data at Receivers, runs that through Processors, transmits those through Exporters.
Receivers don’t just receive though. Here’s an example of a very active one, that goes out and pings your endpoints, and turns the results into metrics.
https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2023/synthetic-testing/
Now if only you could connect those metrics to the traces that got generated at the other end of that test!
What doesn’t the Collector do?
