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Propose a definition of Collector to be included in the specification #4309

Open codeboten opened 10 hours ago

codeboten commented 10 hours ago

What are you trying to achieve?

I'd like to include a definition of what a collector is in the specification. I think this will help set expectations for end users. I discussed this with various Collector contributors at Kubecon NA 2024 as well as other collaborators in the OTel community and everyone seemed to think it would be good to have this in the spec.

Additional context.

This is related to https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/issues/8555