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Clarify metrics design goal, scope out StatsD clients (#4445)
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CHANGELOG.md

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- Clarify STDOUT exporter format is unspecified.
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([#4418](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/pull/4418))
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- Clarify the metrics design goal, scope out StatsD client support.
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([#4445](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/pull/4445))
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specification/metrics/README.md

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converging OpenCensus and OpenTracing. We will focus on providing the
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semantics and capability, instead of doing a 1-1 mapping of the APIs.
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* **Working with existing metrics instrumentation protocols and standards**. The
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minimum goal is to provide full support for
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[Prometheus](https://prometheus.io/) and
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[StatsD](https://github.com/statsd/statsd) - users should be able to use
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OpenTelemetry clients and [Collector](../overview.md#collector) to collect and
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export metrics, with the ability to achieve the same functionality as their
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native clients.
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* **Working with existing metrics instrumentation protocols and standards**.
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Here is the minimum set of goals:
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* Providing full support for [Prometheus](https://prometheus.io/) - users
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should be able to use OpenTelemetry clients and
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[Collector](../overview.md#collector) to collect and export metrics, with
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the ability to achieve the same functionality as the native Prometheus
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clients.
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* Providing the ability to collect [StatsD](https://github.com/statsd/statsd)
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metrics using the [OpenTelemetry Collector](../overview.md#collector).
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