Versioned metrics: Shipping the first Release Candidate metrics in hostmetrics
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Versioned metrics: Shipping the first Release Candidate metrics in hostmetrics


Summary

OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.160.0 introduces versioned metrics to the hostmetrics receiver, enabling a seamless transition to new semantic conventions without breaking existing user configurations. By utilizing versioned suffixes and feature gates within a single configuration schema, the collector can simultaneously emit both legacy and release candidate metrics. This approach provides a controlled, opt-in migration path for updates to metric names, types, and attributes.
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