Alex Boten

@atoulme are these expected: ``` config_warnings_test.go:92: Error Trace: /tmp/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/exporter/datadogexporter/config_warnings_test.go:92 Error: elements differ extra elements in list B: ([]interface {}) (len=1) { (string) (len=125) "\"metrics::histograms::send_count_sum_metrics\" has been deprecated in favor of...

> This breaks our compatibility promise: we are dropping support for Go 1.21.x for x less than 10. There were also recently some fixes upstream (see [golang/go@27ed85d](https://github.com/golang/go/commit/27ed85d4d1702e868730ab6ea2ad6326988c615c)) that I think...

> In terms of support however, I don't think we lose much by continuing to support those versions, but we can discuss it! Right, I'm thinking that if we were...

@mx-psi @bogdandrutu to appease codeql and ensure we continue to support all version 1.21, i updated the version in go.mod to 1.21.0

@lavishpal happy to assign, unfortunately everything i know about this problem is in the description of the issue. For some reason the duration of the codeql has risen pretty severly...

@dmitryax changelog has been added

@dmitryax please resolve the conflict

I expected TelemetrySettings to eventually include a `LoggerProvider` once the logging bridge API is implemented in otel-go. This makes me wonder if TelemetrySettings should be moved out of component

After discussing this at the 3-Apr-2024 SIG call, it was suggested that the use of a level is easier for users so we should keep it and remove the message...

Reopening this PR, with the questions answered in https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/pull/8812