open-telemetry
Consolidate/reuse JMX implementation from instrumentation
The OpenTelemetry community currently owns two separate JMX metrics implementations.
- The jmx metrics gatherer from this repo
- The JMX metrics insights instrumentation
It was suggested that we should combine these two separate implementations. Most likely, the gatherer should probably reuse functionality from the instrumentation repo. Some investigation will need to be done to see if there are any problems/limitations in this approach. Furthermore, the collector team should be engaged to see if they're getting what they need from the gatherer component and/or if changes would be helpful.
This came up in the Java SIG meeting today. CC @dehaansa @Mrod1598 @rmfitzpatrick
This would help in delivering https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-contrib/issues/5 and since the jmx receiver in the collector doesn't allow running custom scripts I don't envision much friction as long as we are at effective metric parity.
