OpenTelemetry Collector integration for Grafana Cloud

The OpenTelemetry Collector integration offers prebuilt dashboards and alerts based on the OpenTelemetry Collector internal telemetry.

This integration includes 4 useful alerts and 1 pre-built dashboard to help monitor and visualize OpenTelemetry Collector metrics, traces.

Dashboards

The OpenTelemetry Collector integration installs the following dashboards in your Grafana Cloud instance to help monitor your system.

Collector overview

Collector overview

Receiver and processor statistics

Exporter statistics and process uptime

Alerts

The OpenTelemetry Collector integration includes the following useful alerts:

Alert	Description
ExporterQueueSaturated	Warning: Exporter queue is reaching limit.
MetricsFailedToSend	Critical: Failed to enqueue metrics for export.
LogsFailedToSend	Critical: Failed to enqueue logs for export.
SpansFailedToSend	Critical: Failed to enqueue spans for export.

Metrics

The most important metrics provided by the OpenTelemetry Collector integration, which are used on the pre-built dashboard and Prometheus alerts, are as follows:

otelcol_exporter_enqueue_failed_log_records_total
otelcol_exporter_enqueue_failed_metric_points_total
otelcol_exporter_enqueue_failed_spans_total
otelcol_exporter_queue_capacity
otelcol_exporter_queue_size
otelcol_exporter_send_failed_log_records_total
otelcol_exporter_send_failed_metric_points_total
otelcol_exporter_send_failed_spans_total
otelcol_exporter_sent_log_records_total
otelcol_exporter_sent_metric_points_total
otelcol_exporter_sent_spans_total
otelcol_process_cpu_seconds_total
otelcol_process_memory_rss_bytes
otelcol_process_uptime_seconds_total
otelcol_processor_incoming_items_total
otelcol_processor_outgoing_items_total
otelcol_receiver_accepted_log_records_total
otelcol_receiver_accepted_metric_points_total
otelcol_receiver_accepted_spans_total
otelcol_receiver_refused_log_records_total
otelcol_receiver_refused_metric_points_total
otelcol_receiver_refused_spans_total
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Changelog

# 1.0.0 - March 2026

* Initial release

Cost

By connecting your OpenTelemetry Collector instance to Grafana Cloud, you might incur charges. To view information on the number of active series that your Grafana Cloud account uses for metrics included in each Cloud tier, see Active series and dpm usage and Cloud tier pricing.