Overview

nvcf-otel-collector is a minimal, custom-built OpenTelemetry Collector distribution produced by NVIDIA Cloud Functions (NVCF). The image contains a single otelcol-contrib binary assembled with the upstream OpenTelemetry Collector Builder and a curated set of receivers, processors, exporters, and extensions that NVCF services need. It ships as a distroless image and is intended to run as a sidecar inside NVCF compute-plane pods, most commonly alongside the NVCA (NVIDIA Cloud Function Agent) worker, where it collects and forwards Kubernetes events and service telemetry for observability.

Unlike the byoo-otel-collector image, this image does not include the BYOO (Bring Your Own Observability) orchestrator, config generator, or ESS secret-extractor. It only runs the OpenTelemetry Collector against a config file you provide, which keeps the image small and its blast radius limited to telemetry collection.

Use case

• NVCA sidecar for collecting Kubernetes events and forwarding them as OTLP telemetry to downstream collectors or customer observability backends.
• Lightweight OTLP receiver and exporter inside NVCF compute-plane pods that do not need the full BYOO stack.
• Platform-metrics scraping via the Prometheus receiver in environments that already manage collector configuration externally.

License

• OpenTelemetry Collector and Contrib components: Apache License 2.0 (upstream).
• Third-party notices are reproduced in the NOTICE file shipped with the source repository.