New component: pprofreceiver

[atoulme]

The purpose and use-cases of the new component

With support for profiles as a native signal for the collector, it would be nice if the collector could emit profiles of itself or any other pprof enabled process and export pprof profiles.

Example configuration for the component

receivers:
  pprof/self: # no configuration
  pprof/somegoprocess:
    endpoint: 127.0.1.1:8000

Telemetry data types supported

profiles

Code Owner(s)

@MovieStoreGuy @atoulme

Sponsor (optional)

@MovieStoreGuy

Additional context

No response

[MovieStoreGuy]

I am happy to sponsor this.

[mx-psi]

could emit profiles of itself

We explicitly self-telemetry going through the Collector pipelines when it comes to metrics, traces and logs. Why should profiles be different?

[codeboten]

The pprof extension can be used to enable the collector to emit profiles... i would expect this to eventually be configurable through service::telemetry::profiles. Maybe I'm missing something