The most important behavior of the OpenTelemetry Collector’s sending_queue during an exporter/backend outage. It focuses on how the queue behaves when the downstream observability backend (Mimir, Loki, Tempo, OTLP endpoint, Kafka, etc.) becomes unavailable. Executive Summary The diagram is explaining the interaction between: The two key settings are: Setting Meaning queue_size Number of batches that … Continue reading Verification of the Queuing Behaviour of the Otel Collector