out_opentelemetry: initial commit

SUMMARY.md

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   * [Parser](concepts/data-pipeline/parser.md)
   * [Filter](concepts/data-pipeline/filter.md)
   * [Buffer](concepts/data-pipeline/buffer.md)
-  * [Router](concepts/data-pipeline/router.md)
+  * [Router](concepts/data-pipeline/router.md)3
   * [Output](concepts/data-pipeline/output.md)
 
 ## Installation
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   * [Throttle](pipeline/filters/throttle.md)
   * [Tensorflow](pipeline/filters/tensorflow.md)
 * [Outputs](pipeline/outputs/README.md)
+  * [OpenTelemetry](pipeline/outputs/opentelemetry.md)
   * [Prometheus Exporter](pipeline/outputs/prometheus-exporter.md)
   * [Prometheus Remote Write](pipeline/outputs/prometheus-remote-write.md)
   * [Amazon CloudWatch](pipeline/outputs/cloudwatch.md)

pipeline/inputs/fluentbit-metrics.md

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 Fluent Bit exposes its [own metrics](../../administration/monitoring.md) to allow you to monitor the internals of your pipeline.
 The collected metrics can be processed similarly to those from the [Prometheus Node Exporter input plugin](node-exporter-metrics.md).
-They can be sent to output plugins including [Prometheus Exporter](../outputs/prometheus-exporter.md) or [Prometheus Remote Write](../outputs/prometheus-remote-write.md).
+They can be sent to output plugins including [Prometheus Exporter](../outputs/prometheus-exporter.md), [Prometheus Remote Write](../outputs/prometheus-remote-write.md) or  [OpenTelemetry](../outputs/opentelemetry.md)..
 
 **Important note:** Metrics collected with Node Exporter Metrics flow through a separate pipeline from logs and current filters do not operate on top of metrics.
 

pipeline/outputs/opentelemetry.md

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+---
+description: An output plugin to submit Metrics to an OpenTelemetry endpoint
+---
+
+# OpenTelemetry
+
+The OpenTelemetry plugin allows you to take metrics from Fluent Bit and submit them to an OpenTelemetry HTTP endpoint.
+
+Important Note: At the moment only HTTP endpoints are supported.
+
+| Key                  | Description                                                  | Default   |
+| -------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ | --------- |
+| host                 | IP address or hostname of the target HTTP Server             | 127.0.0.1 |
+| http_user            | Basic Auth Username                                          |           |
+| http_passwd          | Basic Auth Password. Requires HTTP_user to be set            |           |
+| port                 | TCP port of the target HTTP Server                           | 80        |
+| proxy                | Specify an HTTP Proxy. The expected format of this value is `http://HOST:PORT`. Note that HTTPS is **not** currently supported. It is recommended not to set this and to configure the [HTTP proxy environment variables](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/administration/http-proxy) instead as they support both HTTP and HTTPS. |           |
+| uri                  | Specify an optional HTTP URI for the target web server, e.g: /something | /         |
+| header               | Add a HTTP header key/value pair. Multiple headers can be set. |           |
+| log_response_payload | Log the response payload within the Fluent Bit log           | false     |
+| add_label            | This allows you to add custom labels to all metrics exposed through the OpenTelemetry exporter. You may have multiple of these fields |           |
+
+## Getting Started
+
+The OpenTelemetry plugin only works with metrics collected by one of the from metric input plugins. In the following example, host metrics are collected by the node exporter metrics plugin and then delivered by the OpenTelemetry output plugin.
+
+```
+# Node Exporter Metrics + OpenTelemetry output plugin
+# -------------------------------------------
+# The following example collects host metrics on Linux and delivers
+# them through the OpenTelemetry plugin to a local collector :
+#
+[SERVICE]
+    Flush                1
+    Log_level            info
+
+[INPUT]
+    Name                 node_exporter_metrics
+    Tag                  node_metrics
+    Scrape_interval      2
+
+[OUTPUT]
+    Name                 opentelemetry
+    Match                node_metrics
+    Host                 localhost
+    Port                 443
+    Uri                  /v1/metrics
+    Log_response_payload True
+    Tls                  On
+    Tls.verify           Off
+    # add user-defined labels
+    add_label            app fluent-bit
+    add_label            color blue
+```