From 0e945b6cb2dd9b23b8fe74ac9a50982e912eb253 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrzej Stencel Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 09:20:16 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] [exporter/file][chore][docs] Mention OTLP JSON File receiver in File exporter docs (#35197) Users have trouble finding the receiver that can read the data written by File exporter back into the collector (e.g. see this [CNCF Slack post](https://cloud-native.slack.com/archives/C01N6P7KR6W/p1726222186384309)). Let's mention the OTLP JSON File receiver in the File exporter's docs. --- exporter/fileexporter/README.md | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/exporter/fileexporter/README.md b/exporter/fileexporter/README.md index ec550717b6d9..422e3cf6aeae 100644 --- a/exporter/fileexporter/README.md +++ b/exporter/fileexporter/README.md @@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ [contrib]: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-releases/tree/main/distributions/otelcol-contrib +Writes telemetry data to files on disk. + +Use the [OTLP JSON File receiver](../../receiver/otlpjsonfilereceiver/README.md) to read the data back into the collector (as long as the data was exported using OTLP JSON format). + Exporter supports the following features： + Support for writing pipeline data to a file.