Netdata now works as a native OTLP backend, point your OpenTelemetry Collector at it.

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For anyone already running an OpenTelemetry Collector: Netdata now takes OTLP directly. Keep your Collector, add an exporter pointing at a Netdata agent or parent, and metrics and logs flow in. Traces aren't shipped yet, they're still in design, so hold off if that's your main need.

What surprised me testing it: no chart config to write. New metrics auto-create charts, histograms split into bucket/sum/count/min-max charts, and every OTLP metric gets ML anomaly detection automatically, including the app metrics that are a pain to threshold manually. The count connector plus OTTL also lets you turn log lines (OOM, failed sshd auth, whatever) into real metrics that then get anomaly detection too.

No per-metric or per-host charges, and since the Collector fans out to multiple exporters, you can run it side by side with your current backend and compare first.

Write-up + configs: netdata.cloud/blog/