# Observability control plane

The CtrlB observability control plane provides centralized orchestration for OpenTelemetry collectors so teams can roll out routing rules, health monitoring, and policy-driven forwarding consistently across fleets instead of editing YAML independently on every host.

## Metadata

- **Canonical HTML**: https://ctrlb.ai/control-plane
- **Last updated**: 2026-05-01

## Capabilities

| Capability | Notes |
|------------|-------|
| Collector orchestration | Push configs, observe fleet health |
| Routing | Fan-out / filtering policies |
| OSS alignment | ctrlb-control-plane on GitHub |

## Example: OTLP-first collector skeleton

```yaml
receivers:
  otlp:
    protocols:
      grpc:
      http:

exporters:
  otlphttp:
    endpoint: https://ingest.example.com/v1/logs

service:
  pipelines:
    logs:
      receivers: [otlp]
      exporters: [otlphttp]
```

## Links

- Repository: [ctrlb-control-plane](https://github.com/ctrlb-hq/ctrlb-control-plane)
- [Documentation](https://docs.ctrlb.ai/)