Cloud Monitoring - March 21st, 2025 [Announcement]

## Announcement The Google-Built OpenTelemetry Collector is now available. This Collector is an open-source, production-ready build of the upstream OpenTelemetry Collector that is built with upstream OpenTelemetry Collector components. The Google-built Collector lets you send correlated OTLP traces, metrics, and logs to Cloud Observability and other backends from applications instrumented by using OpenTelemetry SDKs. The Collector also captures metadata for Google Cloud resources, so you can correlate application performance data with infrastructure telemetry data. For information about using this Collector, see [Overview of the Google-Built OpenTelemetry Collector](https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/docs/instrumentation/google-built-otel).