🛠️ CtrlB Control Plane – Manage Telemetry Collectors at Scale

CtrlB Control Plane is an orchestration system developed by CTRLB to manage telemetry collectors across diverse environments. It currently supports lifecycle and configuration management for the OpenTelemetry Collector.

This monorepo is organized into three primary components:

• Frontend: A modern React-based UI to visualize and manage collectors and their configurations.
• Backend: A Go-powered API server that communicates with agents, manages configuration state, and provides installation scripts for manual setup.
• Agent: A lightweight wrapper around the OpenTelemetry Collector with dynamic config fetching and status reporting.

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✨ Features

• 🧹 Centralized management of distributed OpenTelemetry Collectors
• ⚙️ Declarative, graph-based configuration interface
• ⌚ Real-time health and status monitoring of connected collectors

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🗖️ Repository Structure

ctrlb-control-plane/
├── frontend/        # React + Vite-based UI for configuration and control
├── backend/         # Go-based API server for orchestration, config delivery, and agent registration
├── agent/           # Wrapper on OpenTelemetry Collector with dynamic config support
├── scripts/         # Shell scripts to install and manage backend or collectors
└── docs/            # Architecture diagrams, development guides, usage examples

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🚀 Getting Started

📘️ Prerequisites:

• Go 1.23+
• Node.js 18+
• Docker (for local development)

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/ctrlb-hq/ctrlb-control-plane.git
cd ctrlb-control-plane

Start the development environment:

# Backend
cd backend && go run cmd/backend/main.go

# Frontend
cd ../frontend && npm install && npm run dev

📘 Local development guide coming soon in docs/development.md

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💧 Architecture

CtrlB Control Plane is built for scalable collector orchestration. Key architectural components include:

• Collector Communication Layer: Simple HTTP interface for agents to register, fetch config, and report health
• Configuration Manager: Tracks, versions, and delivers pipeline configs
• Storage Backend: Uses SQLite for metadata and state storage (PostgreSQL support coming soon)
• Authentication: Token-based auth for agent registration and communication (in progress)

More details in docs/architecture.md

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📖 Documentation

• Collector Configuration
• API Reference
• Deployment Guide
• Troubleshooting

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🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for setup instructions, coding guidelines, and more.

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📜 License

This project is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. See LICENSE for details.