Add a section that explains the opentelemetrycollector.yaml

[SRJames]

It would be very useful if there was some information on how the collector.yaml file relates to the dashboards that are created. As someone who is new to Prometheus and Grafana I have been struggling with which metrics are coming from which scrape_config. This would be useful when trying to limit the amount of metrics that are being scraped.

[bonclay7]

Can you expand on which parts of the config you need help with?

[SRJames]

As a complete newcomer to Prometheus, Grafana and metrics, but using the repo due to following the AWS Observability Workshop, I think it would be useful to have some explanation of how the scrape_configs relate to the dashboards and possibly even explain what one or two of the configs are doing. By running with the full set you get a lot of nice dashboards but I then started to trim them down and attempt to reduce the amount of data being collected. I'm sure an experienced user would have little trouble, but as a novice this was quite a journey.

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Can you expand on which parts of the config you need help with?

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[bonclay7]

Would something like this explanation help? https://catalog.workshops.aws/observability/en-US/aws-managed-oss/amp/ecs/ingest-custom#receivers

[bonclay7]

Also the upstream docs are really doing a good job on explaining the collector concepts https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/configuration/

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