From e981a202b62d2494c3eb9110f7ec6a953b9b1830 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gil Raphaelli Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2025 12:20:07 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] note exemplar ingestion limitation --- docs/reference/compatibility/limitations.md | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/reference/compatibility/limitations.md b/docs/reference/compatibility/limitations.md index bbe6bf1b..60b48fe2 100644 --- a/docs/reference/compatibility/limitations.md +++ b/docs/reference/compatibility/limitations.md @@ -64,6 +64,10 @@ Ingestion of OpenTelemetry metrics with the type [`Histogram`](https://opentelem Make sure to export histogram metrics with delta temporality or use the [`cumulativetodelta processor`](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/processor/cumulativetodeltaprocessor) as a workaround to convert the temporality for histogram metrics. +### Exemplars + +Exemplars are currently discarded when ingesting metrics. Exemplar support is on the roadmap. + ## Limitations on managed Kubernetes environments Due to limitations with permissions on managed Kubernetes environments, such as GKE Autopilot or AWS Fargate, the default configurations and onboarding flows for EDOT don't fully work in those environments. This might result in decreased collection of data and certain observability views not showing that data. From 28b6e3e53658d0f30a5f44828df3f96409e2b290 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2025 15:20:36 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Update limitations.md --- docs/reference/compatibility/limitations.md | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/reference/compatibility/limitations.md b/docs/reference/compatibility/limitations.md index 60b48fe2..9ca63d37 100644 --- a/docs/reference/compatibility/limitations.md +++ b/docs/reference/compatibility/limitations.md @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ Make sure to export histogram metrics with delta temporality or use the [`cumula ### Exemplars -Exemplars are currently discarded when ingesting metrics. Exemplar support is on the roadmap. +Exemplars are currently discarded when ingesting metrics. Support for exemplars is planned for a future release. ## Limitations on managed Kubernetes environments @@ -99,4 +99,5 @@ You can run tail-based sampling in a self-managed EDOT Collector or any contrib ## Additional information -For backwards compatibility reasons, Kubernetes metrics and host metrics are ingested twice, once in OTel format and once in Elastic Common Schema (ECS) format. \ No newline at end of file + +For backwards compatibility reasons, Kubernetes metrics and host metrics are ingested twice, once in OTel format and once in Elastic Common Schema (ECS) format.