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> @polyrain any update on this issue? @ezarko Mainly waiting for more comms from the maintainers, there was a discussion on the Grafana Slack around it. All I know right...

> Hello @polyrain, we just introduced the new concept of "[Community components](https://github.com/grafana/alloy/pull/1001)" and we think that the Datadog exporter would be the perfect first candidate! Please have a look at...

> @polyrain Any news on this front? @ezarko I've been super busy this week but I'll be addressing the PR feedback when I have a chance during this week :+1:

> @polyrain How have things been going? I hope that you have a little time to look at this soon. I've been pretty busy, however I'm doing some development on...

Speaking as a third party, the addition of `filter`, `map`, and `reduce` _would_ be a massive boon for bridging the gap from 'I have collected all these metrics series, and...