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title: "Source Guides"
description: "Guides for forwarding data from specific sources to Sentry using the OpenTelemetry Collector."
url: https://docs.sentry.io/concepts/otlp/forwarding/sources/
---

# Source Guides

These guides show you how to forward data from specific infrastructure sources to Sentry using the [OpenTelemetry Collector](https://docs.sentry.io/concepts/otlp/forwarding/pipelines/collector.md).

| Source                                                                                      | Logs | Traces |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---- | ------ |
| [AWS CloudWatch](https://docs.sentry.io/concepts/otlp/forwarding/sources/aws-cloudwatch.md) | ✅    | ❌      |
| [Kafka](https://docs.sentry.io/concepts/otlp/forwarding/sources/kafka.md)                   | ✅    | ✅      |
| [Nginx](https://docs.sentry.io/concepts/otlp/forwarding/sources/nginx.md)                   | ✅    | ❌      |
| [Syslog](https://docs.sentry.io/concepts/otlp/forwarding/sources/syslog.md)                 | ✅    | ❌      |
| [Windows Events](https://docs.sentry.io/concepts/otlp/forwarding/sources/windows-events.md) | ✅    | ❌      |

Each guide assumes you have the OpenTelemetry Collector installed. See the [Collector setup guide](https://docs.sentry.io/concepts/otlp/forwarding/pipelines/collector.md) first if you haven't configured it yet.

## Pages in this section

- [AWS CloudWatch](https://docs.sentry.io/concepts/otlp/forwarding/sources/aws-cloudwatch.md)
- [Kafka](https://docs.sentry.io/concepts/otlp/forwarding/sources/kafka.md)
- [Nginx](https://docs.sentry.io/concepts/otlp/forwarding/sources/nginx.md)
- [Syslog](https://docs.sentry.io/concepts/otlp/forwarding/sources/syslog.md)
- [Windows Events](https://docs.sentry.io/concepts/otlp/forwarding/sources/windows-events.md)