Sources Overview

Telemetry Sources

Edge Delta integrates with a wide range of data sources to give you complete visibility across your systems. These sources form the first step in your telemetry pipelines—where logs, metrics, traces, and events are ingested from diverse environments and technologies.

Whether you’re collecting system logs from Linux hosts, Kubernetes pod metrics, or streaming events from cloud platforms, Edge Delta provides purpose-built connectors designed for reliability, performance, and flexibility. Each source type is optimized for its respective data format and transport method, ensuring efficient ingestion without complex setup.

Edge Delta supports both agent-based and agentless ingestion methods, giving you the freedom to deploy across hybrid and cloud-native environments without compromising data fidelity or control.

Explore the supported source categories below to learn how Edge Delta connects to your systems:

Log Sources

Collect logs from files, streams, and services across your environments. These connectors support log formats from hosts, containers, cloud services, and more—enabling structured ingestion, parsing, and pre-processing directly at collection.

Metric Sources

Ingest time-series metrics from systems, applications, and monitoring protocols like Prometheus. These sources allow you to normalize, downsample, or aggregate metrics to reduce volume and improve backend performance.

Trace Sources

Capture distributed traces from modern applications using standards like OpenTelemetry. Edge Delta makes it easy to collect, correlate, and route traces as part of a broader observability strategy.

Cloud-Native Sources

Built for Kubernetes, containers, and modern infrastructure, these sources are optimized for dynamic environments. Capture logs, events, and metrics from pods, nodes, and orchestrators with minimal overhead.

Custom Sources

Integrate with proprietary systems, in-house services, or non-standard formats using SDKs, APIs, and extensible connectors. Ideal for teams needing flexibility across specialized data sources.

Hybrid Sources

Use hybrid source nodes when collecting multiple data types—such as logs, metrics, and traces—from a single source. These connectors simplify configuration and reduce duplication in your pipelines.

Edge Delta source nodes are designed for scale and adaptability. Whether you’re streaming terabytes of security telemetry or ingesting structured metrics from edge workloads, our source connectors ensure your data pipelines are efficient, accurate, and ready for downstream processing.

Looking to route your telemetry after ingestion? Explore the Destinations section to see where your data can go next.