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Change the config.yaml of distributions to use the OTLP receiver instead of Prometheus

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#836 opened on Feb 25, 2025

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Description

config.yaml contains a snippet to read internal metrics:

  # Collect own metrics
  prometheus:
    config:
      scrape_configs:
      - job_name: 'otel-collector'
        scrape_interval: 10s
        static_configs:
        - targets: ['0.0.0.0:8888']

It should be using OTLP now.

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Research direction
Edit the config.yaml file in the distributions to replace the Prometheus scrape configuration with an OTLP receiver configuration.
Tech stack
go
Domain
backend
Issue type
Refactor
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1
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Under 1 hour
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Active
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Clear
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Git
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80