What is Rotel?

Rotel is a high-performance OpenTelemetry collector designed for speed and efficiency. Built with Rust, it provides a lightweight solution for collecting, processing, and exporting telemetry data with minimal overhead. Perfect for resource-constrained environments and performance-critical applications.

• Supports metrics, logs, and traces
• OTLP receiver supporting gRPC, HTTP/Protobuf, and HTTP/JSON
• OTLP exporter supporting gRPC and HTTP/Protobuf
• Built-in batching and retry mechanisms
• Clickhouse and Datadog exporters

Rotel can be easily bundled with popular runtimes as packages. Its Rust implementation ensures minimal resource usage and a compact binary size, simplifying deployment without the need for a sidecar container.