[shahahmed]

i like the philosophy! do ya'll provide a specific collector/agent or do users send directly from the community otel collector?

[real_joschi]

Dash0 currently doesn't offer an own agent or a distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector.

You can use anything which is sending OTLP.

If your applications have been instrumented accordingly, you don't necessarily need a separate agent but can let the OpenTelemetry SDK send directly to Dash0.

Dash0 offers a Kubernetes operator for getting your data in without much effort: https://github.com/dash0hq/dash0-operator

Disclaimer: I am working at Dash0.

[shahahmed]

gotcha, thanks for answering! i guess also disclaimer: I work at Datadog.