This walks you through configuring and deploying the OpenTelemetry Collector, covering receivers, processors, exporters, and the service pipeline that wires them together. It's built around opinionated rules: memory_limiter goes first, one pipeline per signal type, and every declared component must be used or the config gets rejected. You'll find concrete examples for shipping to Dash0, deployment patterns for Kubernetes (Helm, Operator, raw manifests) and Docker Compose, plus guidance on sampling, RED metrics generation, and building custom Collector binaries with OCB. The quick reference table makes it easy to jump straight to what you need, whether that's scraping Prometheus endpoints or redacting sensitive data mid-pipeline.
npx skills add https://github.com/dash0hq/agent-skills --skill otel-collector