What is an OpenTelemetry Collector, and what counts as a Collector distribution?
Per the maintainers and the OpenTelemetry docs: the Collector itself is a vendor-agnostic proxy that can receive, process, and export telemetry data in multiple formats (OTLP, Jaeger, Prometheus, plus commercial and proprietary tools) to one or more backends. A distribution is a packaged build of the Collector that us…
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