> > Are there cases where the metrics plugin developers would want to forward > the compressed payload without decompressing?
The only interoperable use-case I can think of would be to forward the payloads directly to an OpenTelemetry collector backend. Today OTLP only mandates gzip/none compression support for gRPC and HTTP protocols, so this might only work for a limited set of compression formats (or no compression) out of the box. see https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/blob/main/specification/protocol/otlp.md#protocol-details Maybe we could consider exposing the raw uncompressed bytes regardless of client side compression, if someone wanted to avoid the cost of de-serializing the payload, since there would always be an option to forward that as-is, and let the opentelemetry collector add tags relevant to the broker originating those client metrics.
