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Add note to agent API docs warning tags #77

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@felixbarny

All agents should add a NOTE in the tag/label API to warn about a potential mapping explosion.

Suggested text (improvements are welcome, ofc.):

NOTE: Labels are indexed in Elasticsearch so that they are searchable and aggregatable.
By all means, you should avoid that user-specified data,
like URL parameters, is used as a tag key as it can lead to mapping explosions.

It probably makes sense to also link to https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/mapping.html#mapping-limit-settings.

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