feat: Add custom OTel configuration section #1261
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| NGINX Agent generates a default OpenTelemetry config to send metrics to your management plane located at `/etc/nginx-agent/opentelemetry-collector-agent.yaml`. An option is provided to | ||
| bring your own OpenTelemetry configs which will be merged with the NGINX Agent default config. | ||
| OpenTelemetry will merge your [OpenTelemetry Config](https://opentelemetry.io/). The order of the OpenTelemetry config files matters, |
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| OpenTelemetry will merge your [OpenTelemetry Config](https://opentelemetry.io/). The order of the OpenTelemetry config files matters, | |
| OpenTelemetry will merge your [OpenTelemetry Config](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/configuration/). The order of the OpenTelemetry config files matters, |
| NGINX Agent generates a default OpenTelemetry config to send metrics to your management plane located at `/etc/nginx-agent/opentelemetry-collector-agent.yaml`. An option is provided to | ||
| bring your own OpenTelemetry configs which will be merged with the NGINX Agent default config. | ||
| OpenTelemetry will merge your [OpenTelemetry Config](https://opentelemetry.io/). The order of the OpenTelemetry config files matters, |
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| OpenTelemetry will merge your [OpenTelemetry Config](https://opentelemetry.io/). The order of the OpenTelemetry config files matters, | |
| The **order of the OpenTelemetry config files matters**, |
| 1. Edit the configuration file `sudo vim /etc/nginx-agent/nginx-agent.conf` | ||
| 2. Add the collector property | ||
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| 3. Save and restart the NGINX agent service `sudo systemctl restart nginx-agent` |
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Add section to OpenTelemetry Metrics on how to use a custom OpenTelemetry config with NGINX Agent.
A new feature will be added to the Agent where a user can bring there own OpenTelemetry config which will be merged with the Agents default config. This change documents how to use this feature and how to debug any issues the user might have with it.
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