Bogdan Drutu

@Mario-Hofstaetter @mx-psi first of all, thank you for this issue. I have some confusions/questions here: * I am confused about the meaning of "--dry-run", we can discuss if "-dry-run" means...

@pellared that is different because Logger is not a real logger :) (I said this many times, but I will repeat). For EventLogger which is a real Logger, users will...

> Is the expectation that filtering is done at the OpenTelemetry level based on severity? (From my experience, such filtering is typically done inside the logging framework itself, so logs...

I think that is actually a good solution.

@kruskall how can you check if DCE is disable and what causes that?

@debugmiller how can you measure that? Also what does your "binaries" include?

Based on my example in https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/pull/13373, there is improvement with the replacement, but I am not near close to 100 MB

Tried also https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/pull/13374 and improvement is very little, 300KiB...

@debugmiller > I used kruskall's suggestion to bump the version of github.com/modern-go/reflect2 which fixed my problem. FWIW I think this is actually an issue that needs to be addressed upstream...

After https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/pull/14079 and https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/pull/14078 there is only one library that disables DCE which is the use of `html/template` in the `service/internal/zpages` as well as in the `go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/zpages`. Tested (using https://github.com/aarzilli/whydeadcode)...