Getting Started with Bindplane

How to get up and running with Bindplane

What is Bindplane?

Bindplane is an OpenTelemetry-native telemetry pipeline designed to collect, refine, and export metrics, logs, and traces from any source to any destination.

With Bindplane, you can reduce costs and simplify telemetry collector management at an Enterprise scale, easily managing thousands of collectors and petabytes of data in a highly available multi-node configuration.

Bindplane uses the Bindplane Distro for OpenTelemetry (BDOT) Collector to standardize telemetry management with Open Agent Management Protocol (OpAMP). You can also create custom distributions of OpenTelemetry Collector and manage them with Bindplane.

Quickstart

You can get started with Bindplane in one of two ways:

• Cloud: Securely hosted and managed by Bindplane.

• Self-hosted: host Bindplane in your own infrastructure; available for Enterprise and Google Editions.

Get Started with Cloud

We recommend using Bindplane Cloud as the fastest and easiest way to build out your telemetry pipelines. Visit the pricing page to compare our plans, which range from Free to Enterprise.

To get started, sign up for free and follow the Access Bindplane UI guide.

Get Started with Self-Hosted

For self-hosted Enterprise needs, you can manage Bindplane in your own infrastructure. Bindplane can run as a lightweight web server with no dependencies.

To get started, follow the deployment guide for your desired platform:

• Virtual Machine

• Docker

• Kubernetes

• Google Marketplace

If you require TLS, are using a proxy, or require authentication, check out the Configuration page.

Features

• Deploy and manage the lifecycle of telemetry collectors, starting with the BDOT Collector

• Build, deploy, and manage telemetry configurations for different Sources and deploy them to your collectors

• Export metric, log, and trace data to one or many Destinations

• Utilize flow controls to adjust the flow of your data in real-time

Architecture

Bindplane is composed of the following components:

• GraphQL Server: provides configuration and collector details via GraphQL

• REST Server: Bindplane CLI and UI make requests to the server via REST

• WebSocket Server: Collectors connect to receive configuration updates via OpAMP

• Store: pluggable storage manages configuration and Collector state

• Manager: dispatches configuration changes to Collectors