Controlling data overhead from the OpenTelmetry Collector - Nočnica Mellifera

The OpenTelemetry Collector is becoming the standard for moving observability data within your architecture and to a data store. But its default configuration can overuse data and network resources. In this talk I'll cover the configuration control you have over your collector, and how you can reduce overhead, fix data cardinality and metrics explosion, and remove sensitive data before your data makes it out of your network.