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What do we do if both our and otel agent are added

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java

Research direction

Start by running a JVM with both -javaagent options shown in the issue, testing each ordering separately. Investigate whether the agents clash or can coexist, then document and implement a decided behavior for both startup orders.

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Description

eg user starts the jvm as -javaagent:elastic-otel-agent.jar -javaagent::opentelemetry-javaagent.jar

Also the ordering matters, we could be loaded after or before. Is there a clash, do we allow both to run, or exit our agent?

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Java
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Forks
33
Avg merge
1d 10h
Merged PRs (30d)
29

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