#Forwarding Telemetry Data

The OpenTelemetry Collector can forward traces, metrics, and logs from your applications to different observability backends. By defining exporters and pipelines in the Collector configuration, you can route telemetry to platform services such as Jaeger or to external systems without changing your application instrumentation.

This section describes how to forward traces to a Jaeger instance and how to manually deploy a custom Collector that sends telemetry data to third-party systems.