[8.17] (backport #8372) otel: add cumulativetodeltaprocessor to EDOT collector #8385
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What does this PR do?
Adds
cumulativetodeltaprocessor
to the EDOT collectorelastic-agent version of elastic/opentelemetry-collector-components#601
/cc @codefromthecrypt
Why is it important?
Elastic stack only supports delta metrics. The processor can be used to still ingest certain cumulative metrics such as those scraped from Prometheus endpoints.
Checklist
./changelog/fragments
using the changelog toolDisruptive User Impact
How to test this PR locally
Can start a server exposing Prometheus metrics such as envoy and configure collector with prometheus receiver and cumulativetodelta processor to elastic apm.
This is an automatic backport of pull request #8372 done by [Mergify](https://mergify.com).