Content Matching in httpcheck receiver

[agardnerIT]

Component(s)

receiver/httpcheck

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I need to retrieve endpoints and ensure that content is available in the DOM. Just because an endpoint returns a 200 OK doesn't mean it's healthy. A common pattern these days is to 200 OK return an "Sorry, we ran into an error" page.

Describe the solution you'd like

A user should be able to specify a "content match" rule for each endpoint. eg. "This domain is for use in illustrative examples in documents" in http.response_content for http://example.com

Describe alternatives you've considered

N/A

Additional context

No response

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[codeboten]

Thanks for opening the issue @agardnerIT! An option to address a similar feature was proposed in https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pull/27015, adding it here for context.

Going from memory, the discussion in the SIG call was that it would be better to add an attribute to an existing metric rather than adding a separate metric to track this.

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