# [[Telemetry collector]]
![[Telemetry collector.svg]]
A telemetry collector, also often called an "agent", is a binary that installed on a machine to aid in the communication of information between the machine and some other remote machine. In [[Observability]], collectors are typically used to collect and forward [[Telemetry]] in the process called [[Instrumentation]]. It is also known as a telemetry collector.
Telemetry collectors sometimes also include a full [[ETL]] pipeline that can process and transform data before sending it further downstream.
## Examples of collectors
- [[OpenTelemetry|OTel]] [[OTel collector|collector]]
- [[Grafana Alloy]]
- [[Promtail]]
- [[PerfMon Metrics Collector JMeter Plugin]]
- [[Jaeger]] [[Jaeger Agent|Agent]]
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