Remove otel. metric prefix documentation#35828
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The Datadog Exporter no longer prepends otel. to system.* and process.* metrics. Update docs to reflect the new behavior across metrics mapping, query metrics, runtime metrics, and Kafka metrics pages.
Remove the "How OpenTelemetry metrics appear in Datadog" section that was restating the overview. Simplify runtime metrics prefix sentence and remove unused link definitions.
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What does this PR do? What is the motivation?
Removes documentation about the
otel.metric prefix. The Datadog Exporter no longer prependsotel.tosystem.*andprocess.*metrics.Pages updated:
opentelemetry/mapping/metrics_mapping): Removed prefix explanation and deprecation noticemetrics/open_telemetry/query_metrics): Updated metric name examples (e.g.,otel.system.cpu.load_average.15m→system.cpu.load_average.15m)opentelemetry/integrations/runtime_metrics): Removed prefix table distinguishing OTel Collector Exporter vs Agent OTLP Ingest pathsopentelemetry/integrations/kafka_metrics): Removed note aboutotel.prefix and double-countingMerge instructions
Merge readiness:
Additional notes
Do not merge until the Datadog Exporter change ships (~April 15 for OSS exporter).