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<!--Ex. Fixing a bug - Describe the bug and how this fixes the issue. Ex. Adding a feature - Explain what this achieves.--> #### Description Remove some markdownlint exceptions: trailing whitespace, hard tabs, consecutive blank lines. Mostly solved by running `markdownlint --fix .` after removing the exceptions, with some manual changes to correct indentation in Go code blocks. Tabs are typical for actual Go code but I've replaced with two spaces here - other option is just keeping the hard tabs exception in. <!-- Issue number if applicable --> #### Link to tracking issue Partially fixes https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/issues/14731 #### Testing * ran `markdownlint .` after removing rules and making fixes, verified no issues <!--Describe the documentation added.--> #### Documentation None. Modified existing documentation. --------- Co-authored-by: Alex Boten <[email protected]>
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General Information
Extensions provide capabilities on top of the primary functionality of the collector. Generally, extensions are used for implementing components that can be added to the Collector, but which do not require direct access to telemetry data and are not part of the pipelines (like receivers, processors or exporters). Example extensions are: Memory Limiter extension that prevents out of memory situations or zPages extension that provides live data for debugging different components.
Supported service extensions (sorted alphabetically):
The contributors repository may have more extensions that can be added to custom builds of the Collector.
Ordering Extensions
The order extensions are specified for the service is important as this is the
order in which each extension will be started and the reverse order in which they
will be shutdown. The ordering is determined in the extensions tag under the
service tag in the configuration file, example:
service:
# Extensions specified below are going to be loaded by the service in the
# order given below, and shutdown on reverse order.
extensions: [extension1, extension2]