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One Binary, Two Ecosystems: Embedding Prometheus Exporters With OCB - Kyle Eckhart & Arthur Sens, Grafana Labs
Prometheus exporters are typically consumed as scrape targets. But what changes when they can be embedded directly into custom OpenTelemetry Collector distributions built with the OpenTelemetry Collector Builder (OCB)?
This session explores how that shift creates a new operational model for observability teams, platform engineers, and users who rely on Prometheus exporters today. Instead of treating exporters only as external endpoints, teams can run them as Collector components and integrate them more directly into telemetry pipelines.
The talk also examines an important ecosystem question this model brings into focus: how to expose semantic convention-compatible telemetry from Prometheus exporters.
Attendees will leave with a clearer understanding of what this approach unlocks, where Prometheus exporters and Collector receivers overlap, and what this means for the future of interoperability between the two communities.
Don't miss out! Join us at our next KubeCon + CloudNativeCon events in Shanghai, China (8-9 September, 2026) and Salt Lake City, United States (Nov 9–12, 2026). Connect with our current graduated, incubating, and sandbox projects as the community gathers to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing. Learn more at kubecon.io
One Binary, Two Ecosystems: Embedding Prometheus Exporters With OCB - Kyle Eckhart & Arthur Sens, Grafana Labs
Prometheus exporters are typically consumed as scrape targets. But what changes when they can be embedded directly into custom OpenTelemetry Collector distributions built with the OpenTelemetry Collector Builder (OCB)?
This session explores how that shift creates a new operational model for observability teams, platform engineers, and users who rely on Prometheus exporters today. Instead of treating exporters only as external endpoints, teams can run them as Collector components and integrate them more directly into telemetry pipelines.
The talk also examines an important ecosystem question this model brings into focus: how to expose semantic convention-compatible telemetry from Prometheus exporters.
Attendees will leave with a clearer understanding of what this approach unlocks, where Prometheus exporters and Collector receivers overlap, and what this means for the future of interoperability between the two communities.
