Tyler Helmuth

Agreed, and that's what we do today. I was saying that it doesn't have to be the caller that logs the error, as long as something does it.

Exiting with a non-zero code feels appropriate since it wasn't a clean shutdown.

@mwear in that specific zipkin example, would it be inappropriate to report a `PermanentError` instead? It feels like at that point in the startup process all synchronous checks have passed,...

@pantuza I don't have the right permissions in this repo. @open-telemetry/collector-approvers please take a look.

@pantuza I'm adding this PR to the collector's SIG agenda on Monday.

This sounds great and will be a big deal for https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/issues/18643 as a whole. I have started work on a [bridge](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pull/21054) between the old configuration and OTTL and it would...

@mx-psi is this feature required for 1.0 or could it be added after?

@mx-psi is this closed by https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/pull/9837

May have some dependency on https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/issues/9324

Is this a non-breaking change?