pass thru receiver

[nsridhar76]

How do i extend opentelemetry to - receive data in any format and send to a custom exporter that can consume that data. Like the receiver will receive data in any format and pass thru to an exporter that understands this data.

I started off thinking about defining new datatype no-ops, that just passes thru the data which ever format it comes in. It does look like a bizarre idea given the vision of OpenTelemetry. It really helps in opentelemetry adoptions in stages.

[bogdandrutu]

Look at this https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/extension/httpforwarder but not sure how useful will be :)