Is 3rd party exporter in collector-contrib acceptable in Lambda Collector extension?

[wangzlei]

Refer discussion in https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-lambda/pull/21#discussion_r608305375 Right now Lambda collector extension has only Collect-core exporters, such as otlpgrpcexporter, loggingexporter, etc. Can we bring in popular exporters like awsxrayexporter, datadogexporter?

AWS has maintained a downstream Lambda repo, it publishes public lambda layer by replacing Collector to ADOT Collector for company security concern. That downstream public lambda layer supports lots popular 3rd party exporters in Collect-contrib. If otel-lambda only accept otlp exporter, it means 3rd party companies have to either contribute their exporters to aws-observability or maintaie their downstream repo.

Here we have questions:

1. can we add 3rd party exporters from Collector-contrib to Lambda Collector extension?
2. if yes, what criteria an exporter can be involved in?

[serkan-ozal]

I think, we might by additional collector layer(s), but we need to be carefully about the coldstart effect of those things during init.

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