Lifecycle guide for OpenTelemetry Collector from OpenTelemetry

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2026-04-16

What is OpenTelemetry Collector?

Automate product release and end-of-life management

The OpenTelemetry Java offers a vendor-agnostic implementation of how to receive, process and export telemetry data. It removes the need to run, operate, and maintain multiple agents/collectors. This works with improved scalability and supports open-source observability data formats (e.g. Jaeger, Prometheus, Fluent Bit, etc.) sending to one or more open-source or commercial back-ends. The local Collector agent is the default location to which instrumentation libraries export their telemetry data.

The entire lifecycle of OpenTelemetry Collector

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of OpenTelemetry Collector. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.