# YAML Provider

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| Status        |           |
| ------------- |-----------|
| Stability     | [stable]  |
| Distributions | [core], [contrib], [k8s] |
| Issues        | [![Open issues](https://img.shields.io/github/issues-search/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector?query=is%3Aissue%20is%3Aopen%20label%3Aprovider%2Fyamlprovider%20&label=open&color=orange&logo=opentelemetry)](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Aprovider%2Fyamlprovider) [![Closed issues](https://img.shields.io/github/issues-search/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector?query=is%3Aissue%20is%3Aclosed%20label%3Aprovider%2Fyamlprovider%20&label=closed&color=blue&logo=opentelemetry)](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/issues?q=is%3Aclosed+is%3Aissue+label%3Aprovider%2Fyamlprovider) |

[stable]: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/blob/main/docs/component-stability.md#stable
[core]: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-releases/tree/main/distributions/otelcol
[contrib]: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-releases/tree/main/distributions/otelcol-contrib
[k8s]: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-releases/tree/main/distributions/otelcol-k8s
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## Overview

The YAML Provider takes a literal YAML string as Collector configuration.

## Usage

The scheme for this provider is `yaml`. Usage looks like the following passed to the Collector's command line invocation:

```text
--config="yaml:exporters::otlp_http::sending_queue::batch::flush_timeout: 2s"
```