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Co-authored-by: Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti <fferribenedetti@splunk.com>
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a wide variety of observability backends using its components. For a conceptual
overview of the Collector, see [Collector](/docs/collector).

In this page you'll learn how to do the following in less than five minutes:
You are going to learn to do the following in less than five minutes:

- Set up and run the OpenTelemetry Collector.
- Send telemetry and see it processed by the Collector.

## Prerequisites

Ensure that your developer environment has the following. This page assumes that
you're using `bash` -- adapt configuration and commands as necessary for your
Make sure that your developer environment has the following. This page assumes that
you're using `bash`. Adapt configuration and commands as necessary for your
preferred shell.

- [Go](https://go.dev/) 1.20 or higher
- [`GOBIN` environment variable][gobin] is set; if not initialize it
- [`GOBIN` environment variable][gobin] is set; if unset, initialize it
appropriately, for example[^1]:
```sh
export GOBIN=${GOBIN:-$(go env GOPATH)/bin}
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For more information, see
[Your first program](https://go.dev/doc/code#Command).

## Set up
## Set up the environment

1. Pull in the OpenTelemetry Collector Docker image:

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```

5. In the terminal window running the Collector container, you should see trace
ingest activity similar to what is shown below:
ingest activity similar to what is shown in the following example:

```console
$ grep -E '^Span|(ID|Name|Kind|time|Status \w+)\s+:' ./collector-output.txt
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6. Open <http://localhost:55679/debug/tracez> and select one of the samples in
the table to see the traces you've just generated.

7. Once you are done, shutdown the Collector container, for example, using
7. After you are done, shutdown the Collector container, for example, using
<kbd>Control-C</kbd>.

## Next steps
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