--- title: Manage your OpenTelemetry Collectors with Fleet... description: Grafana Cloud's Fleet Management now generally supports OpAMP, letting organizations manage upstream OpenTelemetry Collector distributions centrally without... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/manage-your-opentelemetry-collectors-with-fleet-management-in-grafana-cloud-livckhr5u twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Manage your OpenTelemetry Collectors with Fleet Management in Grafana Cloud | daily.dev og:description: Grafana Cloud's Fleet Management now generally supports OpAMP, letting organizations manage upstream OpenTelemetry Collector distributions centrally without... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/manage-your-opentelemetry-collectors-with-fleet-management-in-grafana-cloud-livckhr5u og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/LIVCKHr5u.png og:image:alt: Manage your OpenTelemetry Collectors with Fleet Management in Grafana Cloud og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Manage your OpenTelemetry Collectors with Fleet Management in Grafana Cloud **[Grafana Labs](https://daily.dev/sources/grafana)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Grafana Cloud's Fleet Management now generally supports OpAMP, letting organizations manage upstream OpenTelemetry Collector distributions centrally without migrating to Grafana Alloy. It covers shared YAML pipeline configuration across a fleet, a merge algorithm that deduplicates component identifiers across pipelines, automatic self-monitoring and host monitoring for enrolled collectors, Terraform-based infrastructure-as-code workflows, and support for gateway deployment patterns mixing edge agents like Fluent Bit or Telegraf with OTel gateways. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Does Grafana Cloud Fleet Management support upstream OpenTelemetry Collector distributions, or only Grafana Alloy? Fleet Management in Grafana Cloud now generally supports OpAMP, extending centralized management to supported upstream OpenTelemetry Collector distributions, not just Grafana Alloy. This lets organizations adopt fleet-wide configuration, health monitoring, and Terraform-based management without first migrating their existing collectors to Alloy. _Teams standardizing their observability pipeline track OpenTelemetry collector management changes like this on daily.dev._ ### How does Fleet Management handle conflicting component names when merging multiple OTel Collector pipelines into one configuration? Fleet Management post-processes remote configuration with a merge algorithm that prepends the pipeline name to OTel pipeline and component identifiers and updates references accordingly, then deduplicates components that share the same type and configuration. This avoids collisions when two independently written pipelines reuse the same component name but expect different behavior. _Developers wiring up reusable OTel pipelines can follow configuration merge mechanics like this via daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Manage all your OpenTelemetry collectors with Datadog Fleet Automation](https://daily.dev/posts/manage-all-your-opentelemetry-collectors-with-datadog-fleet-automation-qp03fp0w1) · Datadog · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Native OpenTelemetry inside Alloy: Now you can get the best of both worlds](https://daily.dev/posts/native-opentelemetry-inside-alloy-now-you-can-get-the-best-of-both-worlds-nbjgcmthl) · Grafana Labs · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Managing OpenTelemetry at Scale: Why OTel Pipelines Need a Control Plane](https://daily.dev/posts/managing-opentelemetry-at-scale-why-otel-pipelines-need-a-control-plane-7xcortcs0) · Coralogix · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Operating OpenTelemetry at scale with OpAMP](https://daily.dev/posts/operating-opentelemetry-at-scale-with-opamp-3usspxenc) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - 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