BetterStackHQ

Collector

Name: Collector
Author: BetterStackHQ

DevOps community

SOURCE https://github.com/BetterStackHQ/collector

Description

Better Stack collector is the easiest and recommended way of integrating Better Stack into your environment. Leverage eBPF to instrument your Kubernetes or Docker clusters to gather logs, metrics, and OpenTelemetry traces without code changes. Ingest everything at a fraction of the cost.

Installation

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open the source below and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

README

[Better Stack](https://betterstack.com/logs) Collector

[![Better Stack dashboard](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e84ed542-a9b9-4a7b-9442-3c145593406a)](https://betterstack.com/tracing)

[![Apache 2.0 License](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-Apache%202.0-blue.svg)](LICENSE.md)

Better Stack collector is the easiest and recommended way of integrating Better Stack into your environment.

**Leverage eBPF to instrument your Kubernetes or Docker clusters** to gather logs, metrics, and OpenTelemetry traces **without code changes**. Ingest everything at a fraction of the cost. [Learn more ⇗](https://betterstack.com/tracing)

Documentation

[Getting started ⇗](https://betterstack.com/docs/logs/collector/)

Resource requirements

Deployment	Soft memory reservation	Hard caps	Host/node guideline
Collector only	512 MiB	1.2 vCPU, 1 GiB memory	2 vCPU, 2 GiB memory
Full tracing (collector + eBPF)	2 GiB	2.2 vCPU, 3 GiB memory	4 vCPU, 4 GiB memory

The collector-only guideline was validated with eBPF stopped. `mem_reservation` is a soft memory target; `mem_limit` and `cpus` are hard caps, and Docker does not reserve CPU. Host/node guidelines are planning targets: the reservation and enough headroom up to the caps must remain available after the OS and other applications consume their share.

Need help?

Please let us know at [hello@betterstack.com](mailto:hello@betterstack.com). We're happy to help!

Thank you, open source contributors!

Better Stack collector wouldn't be possible without the open source community. We are grateful to all the contributors of OpenTelemetry, Cilium, Vector, OBI, Coroot among others who enabled us to build upon their work. Thank you!

[Apache 2.0 License](LICENSE.md)