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[DOCS-15273] Add OpenTelemetry metrics destination - #38656

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What does this PR do? What is the motivation?

  • Adds a new doc and links to the doc
  • Adds a nav item
  • Adds a shortcode
  • Updates the Environment Variables doc

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maycmlee requested a review from a team as a code owner July 31, 2026 18:45
@maycmlee maycmlee added the WORK IN PROGRESS No review needed, it's a wip ;) label Jul 31, 2026
@github-actions github-actions Bot added Architecture Everything related to the Doc backend Guide Content impacting a guide labels Jul 31, 2026
@maycmlee maycmlee added editorial review Waiting on a more in-depth review and removed WORK IN PROGRESS No review needed, it's a wip ;) labels Jul 31, 2026
- Distribution metrics
- Sketch metrics

If one of these metrics is in a batch to be encoded and sent to OpenTelemetry, the Worker drops the unsupported metric, logs an error, and updates the `component_error_total` metric. Datadog recommends using a [filter processor][9] to filter out unsupported metric types.

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Need to confirm with eng that the unsupported metric gets dropped and not the whole batch.


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Waiting for eng on this

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