Smooth Scaling With the OpAMP Supervisor: Managing Thousands of OpenTelemetry Collectors
Talkat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · on Friday, 2025-04-04· at 13:45· Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G·
summary
OpAMP Supervisor uses the OpAMP protocol and an out‑of‑process supervisor to manage collectors, demonstrating a live rollout to 50 Dockerized OpenTelemetry Collectors and claiming it can scale to thousands (architectural notes discuss handling 100,000s). Features shown: custom messages for extensions, available components reporting so servers reject incompatible configs, heartbeat support, and remote config that writes disk config and restarts the collector (no hot reload yet). Alpha binaries exist; planned work includes collector upgrades, multi‑collector support, and Java SDK integration.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00OpAMP introduction
- 1:05Open Agent Management Protocol
- 2:52OpAMP protocol updates
- 6:39OpenTelemetry Collector OpAMP
- 11:53OpAMP extensions
- 12:41OpAMP Supervisor demo
- 18:00BindPlane fleet demo
- 21:30Scaling OpAMP challenges
- 23:14OpAMP future plans
- 25:41Closing
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