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Expand Up @@ -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. Support for exemplars is planned for a future release.

## 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.
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## 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.

For backwards compatibility reasons, Kubernetes metrics and host metrics are ingested twice, once in OTel format and once in Elastic Common Schema (ECS) format.
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