Roadmap

Hot reload

Not implemented currently and it seems they are reluctant to do reloads in general: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-operator/issues/2032

Configcheck

Go with the simplest possible solution.

Existing alternatives currently (and possible improvement ideas)

• silly config check is available by default
• there is an option in the collector for syntax check, not implemented for the operator
• implementing a full config check by running an isolated job (for the future)

Persistent buffering and file position

https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/blob/main/receiver/filelogreceiver/README.md

Buffering and retry helper: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/blob/main/exporter/exporterhelper/README.md

Bindplane example: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3AobservIQ%2Fbindplane-agent+sending_queue&type=code

Metrics

We lack a complete solution for collecting byte metrics, although we plan to use the count connector already. There is another approach that doesn't involve duplicating logs which is implemented in bindplane: https://github.com/observIQ/bindplane-agent/tree/release/v1.43.0/processor/metricextractprocessor

We have to keep considering both approaches until we can have a good measurement.

(Discussion ftr https://axoflow.slack.com/archives/C04HPRT4JH3/p1705938608863419)