Compatibility and support for OTel Collectors
Elastic Stack Serverless Observability
The following table provides an overview of compatibility and support of Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector versions with Elastic Stack (ELK) versions.
| ELK stack version | ELK < 8.16 | ELK 8.16 - 8.17 | ELK 8.18 - 8.19 | ELK 9.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compatibility | Incompatible | Compatible | Compatible | Compatible |
| Level of support | Not supported | Not supported | Supported | Supported |
If you're on Elastic Stack 8.18 or 8.19 and require Elastic support, use EDOT Collector version 9.x, as this combination is officially Supported.
The following table provides an overview of compatibility and support of EDOT Collector versions with different operating systems.
These operating systems and distributions are compatible with EDOT Collector 9.x:
| OS Type | Architecture | Distribution or version | Level of support |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | amd64 | Ubuntu 24.04, 22.04, 20.04 | Supported |
| Linux | arm64 | Ubuntu 24.04, 22.04, 20.04 | Supported |
| Linux | amd64 | RHEL 8 | Supported |
| macOS | amd64 | macOS 10.x and higher | Not supported |
| macOS | arm64 | macOS 10.x and higher | Not supported |
| Windows | amd64 | Server 2022, 2022 Core, 2019, 2019 Core, 2016, 2016 Core | Not supported |
The following Kubernetes distributions are compatible with EDOT Collector 9.x:
| Kubernetes | Architecture | Version |
|---|---|---|
| Kubernetes | amd64, arm64 | 1.33.0, 1.32.0, 1.31.0, 1.30.2, 1.29.4, 1.28.9, 1.27.16 |
The EDOT Collector is compatible with GKE, EKS and AKS. Refer to Limitations on managed Kubernetes environments for more information.
For information on the compatibility of each Collector component, refer to the full list of Core and Extended components.
Non-EDOT distributions of the OTel Collector, such as custom Collector builds, upstream Collector distributions, and so on aren't officially supported through Elastic but are technically compatible (Compatible) if they contain the required OTel Collector components and are configured like the EDOT Collector.
You can retrieve required components and configuration options from the sample configuration files for the EDOT Collector.
For a comparison between EDOT and the upstream OTel, refer to EDOT compared to upstream OTel.