dinesh.gurumurthy_use-serializer-exporter.yaml

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component: datadogexporter

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  Add support for exporting metrics to Datadog using the Datadog serializer. Enable feature gate `exporter.datadogexporter.metricexportserializerclient` to send metrics with the Datadog serializer.

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  This change adds ability to export metrics to Datadog using the Datadog serializer. Apart from performance improvements, this change also adds support for metrics origins in the Datadog App. It also removes the support for using the host attributes from the first resource the exporter processes.

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