Remove concept page 'Data Collection'

[svrnm]

I think that we should remove the following page:

https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/data-collection/

It mostly holds redundant and outdated information:

• the collector is mentioned in the "Components" page within the concepts
• Deployment section is not in alignment anymore with Deployment
• Components is outdated because Connectors are missing, they are explained at other places as well (we might consider moving that to https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/components/#collector)
• The repo section is not relevant for end users (and also incomplete since we have -releases)

@open-telemetry/collector-approvers PTAL as well

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Redirect test:

• https://deploy-preview-2761--opentelemetry.netlify.app/docs/concepts/data-collection/

[cartermp]

Yes, I agree it should probably be removed. As a note, it did get ~14k hits last month: https://play.honeycomb.io/opentelemetry-web/datasets/opentelemetry.io/result/H3QyLkcPGYu?useStackedGraphs

So we should set up an appropriate redirect.

[chalin]

+1

+1 to the redirect -- either as an alias in the new target file, or a redirect rule
(and the three broken links will need to be addressed)

[svrnm]

Redirection is a good point, what would be a good target? https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/?

[cartermp]

Yeah, that's about what I'd expect.

[svrnm]

@chalin @cartermp fixed the redirects, please take another look

[chalin]

@svrnm - I'm wondering if it would make more sense to redirect /docs/concepts/data-collection/ to /docs/concepts/components/#collector instead, that way it stays within the Concepts section.

[chalin]

Use canonical path (with trailing /):

Suggested change

	- [A Collector binary](/docs/collector)
	- [A Collector binary](/docs/collector/)

[dmitryax]

LGTM

[chalin]

@svrnm @cartermp - not sure if you missed this comment (#2761 (review)):

@svrnm - I'm wondering if it would make more sense to redirect /docs/concepts/data-collection/ to /docs/concepts/components/#collector instead, that way it stays within the Concepts section.

WDYT?