OpenTelemetry Collector Attributes Filter Resource Processors

What are all these overlapping processors

OpenTelemetry Collector processors

Attributes Processor

The attributesprocessor allows changing the values of named attributes, with optional selection fields to only process some data. Regardless of processing result, all data passes through.

The filtering logic is:

• If include section, and not explicityly included, skip
• If exclude section, and explicityly excluded, skip
• keep

Filter Processor

The filterprocessor uses the same include/exclude config as the attributesprocessor, but split into distinct metrics/logs/spans subsections.

The logic is:

• If include section, and not explicitly included, drop
• If exclude section, and explicitly excluded, drop
• keep

Resource Processor

The resourceprocessor allows changing attributes at the resource level, but with no filtering.