Add custom metrics quickstart guide for EDOT #4219
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Nice work! Left a few suggestions from a non-SME :)
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Summary
This PR adds a new standalone quickstart page, "Quickstart: Ingest custom metrics with EDOT", to the OpenTelemetry quickstart section.
The new guide provides a lightweight, environment-agnostic introduction to sending custom application metrics into Elastic using the EDOT Collector and OTLP.
Closes #3374
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