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Bindplane is a unified telemetry pipeline
built on OpenTelemetry. Bindplane combines standardized telemetry, scalable
fleet management, and streamlined controls, simplifying telemetry operations
for Google Cloud Observability and Google Security Operations customers.
Bindplane enhances Google Cloud's built-in telemetry-collection
capabilities, empowering teams to do the following:
Deploy and manage thousands of OpenTelemetry Collectors with
simplified configurations.
Collect metrics, logs, and traces seamlessly from hybrid cloud
and on-premises environments.
Process telemetry data using powerful OpenTelemetry processors.
Route data to destinations such as Cloud Monitoring,
Cloud Logging, Cloud Trace, and Google Security Operations
for deeper insights and analytics.
Partnership
Bindplane has been a trusted partner since 2018. In 2025, Bindplane
and Google expanded their partnership, with a shared
commitment to deliver OpenTelemetry-based observability and security solutions
for enterprises.
OpenTelemetry contributions
Bindplane is a leading contributor to the
OpenTelemetry project
and is deeply committed to advancing open-source observability standards.
Some of Bindplane's most notable contributions include the following:
Donating its open-source, high-performance log agent in 2021,
laying the foundation for logging, a key pillar of observability
within the OpenTelemetry Collector.
Contributing over 30 Receivers
to the OpenTelemetry Collector, spanning critical enterprise observability
and security use cases.
Contributing significantly to the design and implementation
of Connectors
to support advanced routing within the collector.
Contributing significantly to the design and implementation
of the Open Agent Management Protocol
(OpAMP),
enabling remote management of the OpenTelemetry Collector.
Bindplane architecture and security
Bindplane is a lightweight web server that uses OpAMP to remotely deploy
and manage OpenTelemetry collectors to collect, process, and send telemetry to
the Google Cloud APIs for ingestion.
Telemetry data is sent directly to the Google Cloud APIs from the
collectors and does not pass through the Bindplane server.
Collectors will run independently of Bindplane in the event of an
outage or permanent disconnection.
Bindplane can be deployed on any premise or cloud, allowing
organizations to tailor implementation to organizational security policy.
Bindplane availability for Google Cloud customers
Bindplane (Google Edition) is free to Google Cloud Observability and
Google Security Operations customers. For more information about Bindplane's
benefits, features, and use cases, see Bindplane's
Google Integration document.
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