OverviewThe OpenTelemetry Collector is a vendor-agnostic agent process for collecting and exporting telemetry data emitted by many processes. The Datadog Exporter for the OpenTelemetry Collector allows you to forward trace, metric, and logs data from OpenTelemetry SDKs to Datadog (without the Datadog Agent). It works with all supported languages, and you can connect OpenTelemetry trace data with a
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