TELEMETRY PIPELINE
Source

Ingest telemetry data with source plugins

Chronosphere Telemetry Pipeline uses source plugins to ingest telemetry data into pipelines, either by receiving it (push) or collecting it (pull).

You can add and configure source plugins to connect your pipelines to a variety of telemetry sources. Different source plugins support different data types, including logs, metrics, and traces.

Push-based and pull-based source plugins

Most source plugins are either push-based or pull-based.

  • Push-based source plugins passively listen for data emitted from a specified source.
  • Pull-based source plugins actively fetch data from a specified source.

However, source plugins that output test data, like Datagen, are neither push-based nor pull-based because they’re self-contained plugins that don’t communicate with external sources.