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Local build of OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib

I'm new to OpenTelemetry and trying out building locally for now. I'm following the guide in the Local section here.

Running the following works flawlessly:

git clone https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector.git
cd opentelemetry-collector
make install-tools
make otelcorecol
./bin/otelcorecol_* --config ./examples/local/otel-config.yaml

It works! Yay!

But I want to build the OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib instead of just the OpenTelemetry Collector. So I'm trying:

git clone https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib.git
cd opentelemetry-collector-contrib
make install-tools
make otelcorecol

...but here I get the following error: make: *** No rule to make target 'otelcorecol'. Stop.

I want to build the Contrib-version because I want to use the file-exporter, which is not included in the non-Contrib-version, as far as I know.

I'm on macOS.

Any help would be very much appreciated! :-)

Solution

  • The corresponding make target for opentelemetry-collector-contrib is otelcontribcol, so you'll have to run this instead:

    make otelcontribcol