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Bindplane: OpenTelemetry telemetry pipelines from discovery to expertise

Complete Bindplane course: OpAMP control plane, BDOT Collector, configurations, telemetry reduction and masking, routing, fleets, gateways, rollouts, configuration as code and production.

8 chapters14 lessonsEN
At your pace, through practice.

By the end of this course you will be able to

  • Explain the role of an OpAMP control plane and Bindplane's architecture
  • Install Bindplane and connect BDOT collectors
  • Build pipelines of sources, processors and destinations
  • Reduce, mask and route telemetry while measuring the gains
  • Deploy at scale with fleets, gateways and rollouts
  • Manage Bindplane as code and run it in production

🎯 Level : Intermediate👥 Who it is for : Observability engineers, SREs, DevOps and security teams who manage many OpenTelemetry collectors and want to control volumes and costs

LEARNING PATH

Course curriculum

0Course overview1 lesson
  1. Assessment quizQuiz · ⏱ 10 min
1Introduction and architecture2 lessons

Control plane, OpAMP and comparison of approaches.

  1. Bindplane: managing telemetry pipelinesArticle · ⏱ 5 min
  2. OpenTelemetry Collector, Grafana Alloy and BindplaneArticle · ⏱ 9 min
2Installation2 lessons

Server, collectors and CLI.

  1. Installing BindplaneArticle · ⏱ 10 min
  2. Lab: Install Bindplane and connect a first collectorHands-on lab · ⏱ 40 min · Level 2/5
3Configurations2 lessons

Sources, processors, destinations and versions.

  1. Bindplane configurationsArticle · ⏱ 4 min
  2. Lab: Build a log pipeline and observe the dataHands-on lab · ⏱ 40 min · Level 3/5
4Reduction and routing2 lessons

Costs, masking and multiple destinations.

  1. Reduce, mask and routeArticle · ⏱ 3 min
  2. Lab: Reduce and mask logs, then measure the gainHands-on lab · ⏱ 45 min · Level 3/5
5Deploying at scale2 lessons

Fleets, gateways and rollouts.

  1. Fleets, gateways and rolloutsArticle · ⏱ 3 min
  2. Lab: Batched rollout, error and rollbackHands-on lab · ⏱ 45 min · Level 4/5
6Production2 lessons

High availability, security and configuration as code.

  1. Bindplane in productionArticle · ⏱ 6 min
  2. Final Lab: Production pipeline managed as codeHands-on lab · ⏱ 1 h · Level 4/5
7Best practices1 lesson

Recommended practices to run the product in production.

  1. Bindplane best practicesArticle · ⏱ 4 min

LEARN BY DOING

Use cases & applications

Cut a SIEM bill

Filter, deduplicate and route before ingestion.

Migrate backends

Send to the old and the new tool in parallel.

Standardise on OpenTelemetry

Replace proprietary agents with managed collectors.

Govern collection

Know which collectors run, with which version.

Recommended prerequisites

OpenTelemetry: From Discovery to Expertise

What next?

Alloy: From Discovery to ExpertiseFluent Bit and Vector: lightweight log collectionGrafana: From Discovery to Expertise

Frequently asked questions

What is Bindplane?

A control plane for OpenTelemetry collectors: it builds pipelines, deploys them through rollouts over OpAMP and measures the volumes sent to backends.

Does data go through the Bindplane server?

No. The server pushes configurations and receives measurements; telemetry goes straight from collectors to destinations.

Do I need to pay to follow the course?

No: the Free plan (up to 10 collectors and 100 GB/day) is enough for every lab. A free license key is required.

How does it differ from Grafana Alloy?

Alloy is a collector distribution with its own syntax; Bindplane is a control plane that manages collector fleets. An article in the course compares them in detail.