Better Stack Collector
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 ⇗
| 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.
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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!