--- title: OpenTelemetry Fleet Management over OpAMP | Pydantic Logfire description: >- Fleet management for OpenTelemetry Collectors and instrumented apps: edit Collector pipelines, change sampling and redaction, and roll out safely from Pydantic Logfire, over OpAMP. canonical: 'https://pydantic.dev/logfire/fleet-management' --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://pydantic.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. ## Querying This Documentation **warning**: agent query parameters (`goal` and `organization`) not included. 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[Start free](https://pydantic.dev/signup) [Ask for early access](https://pydantic.dev/contact) ![The Hosts flow map for one log pipeline: nginx file logs at 1.4K records per second and OTLP from local applications at 830 records per second pass through a health-check filter and a batch processor, then go to Logfire and a file archive at 1.9K records per second each.](https://pydantic.dev/assets/logfire/product/fleet/fleet-flow.webp) Trusted by teams building production software and AI **Customers:** Motorola, Sophos, Airbyte, Pictet, Vox Media, Weaviate, Amboss, Tiger Data Definition ## What is fleet management for telemetry? Every machine runs a Collector and every service runs an SDK, and each has a configuration that decides what is collected, what is dropped and where it goes. Fleet management moves that configuration out of a thousand files and into one place, where you can change it, roll it out, and see which agents are actually running it. In Logfire, each agent keeps a connection open over **OpAMP**, reports its health and effective configuration, and applies the policy you publish. Nothing proprietary sits on the hosts: the Collectors are upstream OpenTelemetry builds. One control plane ## Applications, hosts and clusters, side by side * ### Applications Python, Node.js, Go, Java and .NET services connect with a small OpAMP client beside their OpenTelemetry SDK. An application policy changes sampling, exports, log level and redaction inside the running process. * ### Collectors on hosts A standard OpenTelemetry Collector build, run by an OpAMP Supervisor on Linux, macOS or Windows. Fleet owns its whole configuration: what it collects from the machine, what the local apps send it, and where it all goes. * ### Kubernetes The OpenTelemetry Operator's OpAMP bridge connects a cluster. A Kubernetes policy describes the Collector workloads (deployments and daemonsets) and the Operator creates, updates or removes them to match. Collector policies ## Build the pipeline on a canvas, keep the YAML A Collector policy is a Collector configuration. Edit it as a pipeline of sources, processing and destinations, as YAML, or both at once in Split view: they are the same document, and comments survive the round trip. ![The Host baseline Collector policy, published as version 18 and assigned to four Collector instances, open in Visual mode. The metrics pipeline runs Host metrics into a memory limiter and a batch processor, then to the Logfire destination, with a component library of sources, processors and destinations on the left.](https://pydantic.dev/assets/logfire/product/fleet/fleet-collector-editor.webp) Templates for Linux, Windows and macOS hosts, file logs, Prometheus scraping and application OTLP give you a working start. The component library lists upstream receivers, processors and exporters, and common settings get a form instead of a blank YAML block. ![The Hosts inventory shows six hosts. api-worker-01 and collector-us-01 have applied their policies; api-worker-02 and collector-us-02 are healthy and moving from one version to the next; batch-worker-01 is disconnected; payments-01 is connected but degraded and failed to apply version 18 of Host baseline.](https://pydantic.dev/assets/logfire/product/fleet/fleet-hosts.webp) Each Collector reports its connection, its health and whether the latest version applied. A host that failed to apply version 18 shows as failed, with its component health and the error, instead of silently running version 17. Try it on your stack ## Put one host under management Start free, then ask us to turn on Fleet Management for your organization. [Start free](https://pydantic.dev/signup) [Ask for early access](https://pydantic.dev/contact) Application policies ## Change sampling and redaction in a running service The noisiest health-check endpoint, the trace rate that was fine until launch day, the attribute that should never have been exported: these are usually a code change and a redeploy. With an application policy they are a published version. ![The Production sampling policy, version 3, assigned to 42 application instances. Trace sampling overrides the local rate to 10 percent, and sampling rules drop server spans whose URL path matches /health* and keep half of GET /api/* traces.](https://pydantic.dev/assets/logfire/product/fleet/fleet-application-policy.webp) Head sampling with ordered rules by span name, kind and URL path. Pause or resume each signal's exports, set a minimum log level, cap trace and log rates, redact attributes by key and scrub values that look like secrets, all before the data leaves the process. Kubernetes ## Collectors in your cluster, through the OpenTelemetry Operator Install the OpenTelemetry Operator and its OpAMP bridge, then manage the cluster's Collectors from Logfire. A Kubernetes policy lists the Collector workloads it wants and the Operator makes the cluster match: add one, edit its pipeline, or remove it. ![A Kubernetes policy with three Collector workloads: observability/telemetry as a deployment for traces, metrics and logs, observability/cluster-metrics as a deployment for metrics, and observability/pod-logs as a daemonset for logs. The telemetry workload's traces pipeline is open in the visual editor, sending OTLP through a batch processor to Logfire.](https://pydantic.dev/assets/logfire/product/fleet/fleet-kubernetes-policy.webp) Starting points for application telemetry, cluster metrics and pod logs. Each workload has the same visual and YAML editor as a host policy, plus its Kubernetes settings. Safe rollouts ## Change a thousand Collectors one decision at a time ### Drafts touch nothing Save as many drafts as you like. A Collector or application only changes when someone publishes a version, so a half-finished edit never reaches production because a tab was left open. ### Review the diff, then publish Publishing opens a review of exactly what changes against the running version: the YAML diff for a Collector, the changed settings for an application policy, and how many clients it will reach. ### Pilot on a few, then the rest Turn on rollouts and a new version goes to the Collectors you pick first. Progress shows applied, pending and failed per client. Pause stops further sends; cancel ends the rollout. ### Roll back from history Every published version is kept. Open an earlier one as a diff, restore it into the editor, and publish it again as the next version. The history stays linear, so the audit trail shows the rollback too. ![A pilot rollout of Host baseline version 18 in progress: one of four Collectors applied, two pending and one failed, with controls to pause or cancel the rollout.](https://pydantic.dev/assets/logfire/product/fleet/fleet-rollout.webp) A pilot rollout of version 18 to four production hosts. One failed, so the rollout can be paused before the version goes any further, and the failing host's detail shows why. ![Version 17 of a Collector policy compared with the published version 18: version 17 also scraped filesystem metrics. A button restores version 17 into the editor.](https://pydantic.dev/assets/logfire/product/fleet/fleet-version-diff.webp) Any earlier version opens as a diff against the published one. Restore it into the editor and publish it to roll back. Traffic ## See which Collectors send the most Collectors report their own exporter counters, so Fleet can total what each policy and each Collector sends, signal by signal, and compare it with the period before. The policy that doubled your log volume overnight is at the top of the list. ![The Fleet overview Traffic tab for the last day: 48.2 million metric data points, up 18 percent; 3.4 million log records, down 13 percent; 912 thousand spans; and 11 of 12 Collectors reporting. gateway-eu-1 is the top Collector at 13.9 million items and Production hosts the top policy at 35 million.](https://pydantic.dev/assets/logfire/product/fleet/fleet-traffic.webp) Totals per signal, the top Collectors and policies, and how many Collectors reported. Open any of them to change the policy behind the number. Open by design ## Built on OpAMP and upstream OpenTelemetry Fleet Management speaks the OpAMP specification. Host Collectors are upstream OpenTelemetry Collector builds, clusters connect through the OpenTelemetry Operator's own bridge, and the application clients are [public on GitHub](https://github.com/pydantic/opamp-clients). A Collector policy is plain Collector YAML, so the destinations are yours to choose: Logfire, another OTLP backend, an archive, or all three. Manage the agents in Logfire and send the data wherever it needs to go. If you ever stop using Fleet, the last configuration is still a file a Collector can run. Alongside ## What the Collectors feed Fleet manages the agents. [Infrastructure monitoring](https://pydantic.dev/logfire/infrastructure) covers what they collect: host, container and Kubernetes views, database integrations, and the trace behind an unhealthy pod. [Application performance monitoring](https://pydantic.dev/logfire/apm) covers the requests running on top. FAQ ## Common questions ### What is OpenTelemetry fleet management? Managing the configuration of many telemetry agents from one place: OpenTelemetry Collectors on hosts and in clusters, and the SDKs inside your applications. Instead of editing a file on each machine or redeploying each service, you change a policy centrally and each agent applies it. It also means knowing what every agent is running and whether it is healthy. ### What is OpAMP? The [Open Agent Management Protocol](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/opamp/) is the OpenTelemetry project's protocol for remote agent management. An agent connects to a server, describes itself, reports its health and effective configuration, and can receive new configuration, connection credentials and restart commands. Logfire Fleet Management is an OpAMP server, so it works with clients built to the specification as well as with our own. ### Do I have to send my telemetry to Logfire? No. A Collector policy is ordinary Collector configuration, so its destinations can be Logfire, another OTLP backend, a file archive, or several at once. Fleet manages the agents; where they send data is up to the policy you write. ### Can I keep my existing Collector configuration? Yes. Paste it into a new Collector policy in YAML mode. The visual editor works on the same document, preserves comments and settings it does not recognize, and the publish review shows the exact diff before anything changes. ### Which Collectors and clients are supported? Host Collectors run the upstream OpenTelemetry Collector under an OpAMP Supervisor, which Logfire's command-line installer sets up. Kubernetes clusters connect through the OpenTelemetry Operator's OpAMP bridge. A Collector that only runs the upstream opamp extension reports its health and effective configuration but cannot take new configuration, because the extension does not accept it. Applications use the Logfire OpAMP clients for Python, Node.js, Go, Java and .NET. ### How do applications pick up a new policy without a redeploy? The OpAMP client in the application keeps a connection to Logfire. When a new application policy is published, the client applies it to the running SDK: the sampler, the exporters, the minimum log level, and the redaction and scrubbing rules. It reports back whether each setting applied, so the inventory shows which processes are on the new version. ### How do Collectors authenticate? A host or cluster starts with an enrollment key. Clients that support it are then issued a connection key of their own, which can be rotated or revoked one client at a time without touching the others. ### Is Fleet Management available on my plan? Fleet Management is in early access. [Contact us](https://pydantic.dev/contact) and we will turn it on for your organization. ## Manage your telemetry from one place Start free with 10 million telemetry records per month, then ask us to turn on Fleet Management. * [Start free](https://pydantic.dev/signup) * [Ask for early access](https://pydantic.dev/contact) * [View pricing plans](https://pydantic.dev/pricing)