Is there a way of exporting metrics to a file?

[ps-weber]

Hi,

I would like to export the metrics to a file which I can then import. The usecase is diagnosing a customer deployment which do not have access to a metric DB like prometheus.

The OpenTelementry site describes a simple exporter that writes the OLTP messages to JSON. However, i can not find any implementation of this exporter.

[ps-weber]

I think I figured it out:
https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/exporter/fileexporter
https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/receiver/filereceiver