# Connectors

> List of available OpenTelemetry Collector connectors

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LLMS index: [llms.txt](/llms.txt)

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Connectors connect two pipelines, acting as both exporter and receiver. For more
information on how to configure connectors, see the
[Collector configuration documentation](/docs/collector/configuration/#connectors).

<table>
<thead>
  <tr>
    <th>Name</th>
    <th>Distributions<sup><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup></th>
  </tr>
</thead>
<tbody><tr>
      <td><a href="https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/v0.148.0/connector/countconnector" target='_blank'>Count Connector</a></td>
      <td>contrib, K8s</td>
    </tr><tr>
      <td><a href="https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/v0.148.0/connector/datadogconnector" target='_blank'>Datadog Connector</a></td>
      <td>contrib</td>
    </tr><tr>
      <td><a href="https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/v0.148.0/connector/exceptionsconnector" target='_blank'>Exceptions Connector</a></td>
      <td>contrib, K8s</td>
    </tr><tr>
      <td><a href="https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/v0.148.0/connector/failoverconnector" target='_blank'>Failover Connector</a></td>
      <td>contrib, K8s</td>
    </tr><tr>
      <td><a href="https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/tree/v0.149.0/connector/forwardconnector" target='_blank'>Forward Connector</a></td>
      <td>contrib, core, K8s</td>
    </tr><tr>
      <td><a href="https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/v0.148.0/connector/grafanacloudconnector" target='_blank'>Grafana Cloud Connector</a></td>
      <td>contrib</td>
    </tr><tr>
      <td><a href="https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/v0.148.0/connector/metricsaslogsconnector" target='_blank'>Metrics as Logs Connector</a></td>
      <td>contrib</td>
    </tr><tr>
      <td><a href="https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/v0.148.0/connector/otlpjsonconnector" target='_blank'>OTLP JSON Connector</a></td>
      <td>contrib, K8s</td>
    </tr><tr>
      <td><a href="https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/v0.148.0/connector/roundrobinconnector" target='_blank'>Round-Robin Connector</a></td>
      <td>contrib, K8s</td>
    </tr><tr>
      <td><a href="https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/v0.148.0/connector/routingconnector" target='_blank'>Routing Connector</a></td>
      <td>contrib, K8s</td>
    </tr><tr>
      <td><a href="https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/v0.148.0/connector/servicegraphconnector" target='_blank'>Service Graph Connector</a></td>
      <td>contrib, K8s</td>
    </tr><tr>
      <td><a href="https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/v0.148.0/connector/signaltometricsconnector" target='_blank'>Signal to Metrics Connector</a></td>
      <td>contrib</td>
    </tr><tr>
      <td><a href="https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/v0.148.0/connector/slowsqlconnector" target='_blank'>Slow SQL Connector</a></td>
      <td>contrib</td>
    </tr><tr>
      <td><a href="https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/v0.148.0/connector/spanmetricsconnector" target='_blank'>Span Metrics Connector</a></td>
      <td>contrib</td>
    </tr><tr>
      <td><a href="https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/v0.148.0/connector/sumconnector" target='_blank'>Sum Connector</a></td>
      <td>contrib</td>
    </tr>
</tbody>
</table><div class="footnotes">
  <ol>
    <li id="fn:1">
      Shows which <a href="/uk/docs/collector/distributions/">distributions</a> (core, contrib, K8s, etc.) include this component.
    </li></ol>
</div>