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Roll out OpenTelemetry Collector declarative config without dropping telemetry

A practical runbook to validate stable configs, queues, retries, and signal parity before promoting a Collector.

Move to OpenTelemetry Collector declarative configuration with dry-runs, canaries, queue/exporter metrics, PromQL tests, and a prepared rollback.

Created: July 2, 2026

Published: July 2, 2026

Estimated time50 min
LevelAdvanced
Before you startOpenTelemetry Collector exposing internal metrics
PlatformsLinux / Docker
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Docker

Compare current and new Collectors with synthetic load.

docker composeprometheus local
Start the lab
docker compose up -d otelcol-current otelcol-canary prometheus
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