# Build custom components

> Instructions on how to build your own Collector components

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You can configure the OpenTelemetry Collector with components from the
[community](/docs/collector/components/) and
[broader ecosystem](/ecosystem/registry/), and you can also develop and build on
your own custom components. This section describes how to build some of those
components. For additional details, see the documentation in the
[opentelemetry-collector-contrib repository](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/blob/main/README.md).

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Section pages:

- [Build a receiver](/docs/collector/extend/custom-component/receiver/)
- [Build a connector](/docs/collector/extend/custom-component/connector/)
- [Build an extension](/docs/collector/extend/custom-component/extension/): Instructions on how to build custom extensions for the Collector.