Otel collector or complete Otel stack with data storage and ui etc?

The collector is a helm chart, someone on my project added it to our K8s clusters last week. It was like 30 lines of YAML/Terraform in total. Logs, trace forwarding, Prometheus scraping. That bit is easy.

Idk about deploying the ui/storage. I’ve used Grafana Loki stuff in Docker Compose locally without much head scratching for local development.

https://github.com/grafana/docker-otel-lgtm

Was thinking storage and UI. Making something useful of the work spent collecting the information!