question: should a otlp gateway option be included in chart?

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Hi.

I am looking into adopting the k8s-monitoring v2 chart as it seem to fit quite nicely as a drop in replacement for our prometheus operator setup. (we have loki, tempo and mimir configured locally)

This is a very well made chart the values file is well documented and validations are really great, however I seem to be hitting a bit of a wall when it comes to shipping opentelemetry things using the otel gateway part of the chart. (which may very well be due to my lack of understanding of opentelemetry in general) to me it seems like this chart is missing an option for setting up a gateway? it just assumes that I have one at hand? Is that deliberate or something that is missing? In case I want to somehow have the chart also set one up, what would be the recommended approach to that? Or perhaps I'm looking at this the entirely different way and I can make due with the "traditional" metric and log shipping options? but would that not result in me missing some labels to correlate metrics, logs and traces?

I hope this question is ok to ask here. 🤞 🙏