What CollectorCtrl Can Do

The Fleet Overview gives you real-time visibility into all connected OpenTelemetry Collectors across your infrastructure. Two view modes adapt to your fleet size.

Every Supervisor agent reports its status to the Management Server every 5 seconds. The dashboard categorizes agents into Healthy, Unhealthy, Warning, and Disconnected states.

Execute lifecycle commands on any collector directly from the web UI. The server translates your click into an OpAMP packet that the Supervisor executes locally.

Fleet Policies use Kubernetes-style label selectors to target groups of collectors. When you publish a policy update, CollectorCtrl computes which agents match and pushes the new configuration via OpAMP.

Deploy configuration changes to a subset of your fleet first. Monitor health metrics, then promote to 100% or abort and rollback — all from the Policies page.

Every policy publish creates an immutable snapshot. View the full history, compare versions with color-coded diffs, and rollback to any previous configuration instantly.

If someone edits a collector config file directly on a server, the Supervisor detects the drift within seconds and reverts it to the authorized control plane version.

When a policy update is pushed, the Supervisor applies it without restarting the collector process. On Linux this uses SIGHUP; on Windows it uses the collector's admin API reload hook.

CollectorCtrl enforces permissions at the API level. Every endpoint checks the user's role before executing. Built-in roles cover common organizational needs.

Connect CollectorCtrl to your existing identity infrastructure. Supports Okta, Azure AD (Entra ID), Auth0, Keycloak, and any OIDC-compliant provider.

CollectorCtrl captures every administrative action in an immutable audit log. Stream these events in real-time to your SIEM via standard OTLP/HTTP.

Generate scoped API tokens for non-human access. Tokens are SHA-256 hashed before storage and use a recognizable cct_ prefix for secret scanning compatibility.

The integrated OpenTelemetry Collector Builder (OCB) lets you compile custom collector binaries with only the components you need — directly from the dashboard.

Store and version your collector binaries in a secure local repository. Every upload is SHA-256 hashed. Supervisors verify downloaded packages before installation.

Push new Supervisor versions to your entire fleet with built-in safety mechanisms. The Upgrade Governor prevents overload and automatic rollback protects against bad binaries.

Different observability vendors use different field names for the same concept. The Semantic Registry maps vendor-specific fields to standard OpenTelemetry semantic conventions.

Tap a configurable percentage of live telemetry from any agent, inspect traffic patterns, and run What-If simulations to predict pipeline savings.