Keeping them properly configured, updated and healthy involves manual steps per host. Without a central control plane, it becomes error-prone and hard to scale, leading to config drift across fleets.

Enter OpAMP (Open Agent Management Protocol), which enables each agent to connect to a central server so it can “phone home” and receive instructions with capabilities like remote configs, health monitoring, agent telemetry and credential management, drastically simplifying Agent lifecycle. OpAMP is also vendor-agnostic, meaning the Server can remotely monitor & manage a fleet of different vendor Agents as long as they implement the OpAMP specification. In this talk, we’ll discuss the motivation behind OpAMP, the communication model, and how to enable it in the Otel Collector using the OpAMP Extension & Supervisor components.