Docs suggest only gateway collectors can support proxy settings #1634
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This change is attempting to clarify that any collector can support proxy settings. However most customers would prefer to use a gateway collector so they don't need to configure proxy settings on each collector. Feel free to wordsmith this PR to convey that message.
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| Use the :new-page:`Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector <https://docs.splunk.com/Observability/gdi/opentelemetry/deployment-modes.html>` in data forwarding (gateway) mode. You can forward metrics locally to the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector, which serves as your local store-and-forward service for telemetry. | |||
| The :new-page:`Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector <https://docs.splunk.com/Observability/gdi/opentelemetry/deployment-modes.html>` supports configuring proxies. You can configure this on each collector, or a more typical method would be to configure a collector in data forwarding (gateway) mode. In the gateway paradigm you only need to configure the gateway collector(s) with the proxy settings; all other collectors can simply send data to the gateway collector. | |||
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| The :new-page:`Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector <https://docs.splunk.com/Observability/gdi/opentelemetry/deployment-modes.html>` supports configuring proxies. You can configure this on each collector, or a more typical method would be to configure a collector in data forwarding (gateway) mode. In the gateway paradigm you only need to configure the gateway collector(s) with the proxy settings; all other collectors can simply send data to the gateway collector. | |
| The :new-page:`Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector <https://docs.splunk.com/Observability/gdi/opentelemetry/deployment-modes.html>` supports proxies. You can configure proxies on each collector, or more typically, you would configure a collector in data forwarding (gateway) mode. In the gateway mode, you only need to configure the gateway collector(s) with the proxy settings; all other collectors can simply send data to the gateway collector. |
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This change is attempting to clarify that any collector can support proxy settings. However most customers would prefer to use a gateway collector so they don't need to configure proxy settings on each collector.
Feel free to wordsmith this PR to convey that message.
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