Proposed title of this feature request

Aggregate metrics from logs in the Opentelemetry collector

What is the nature and description of the request?

As of today, the Red Hat build of OpenTelemetry already provides a way to aggregate metrics from spans. As we add more functionality and signals, doing the same from logs is a natural step forward which could already be achieved by adding the count connector to our distro: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/connector/countconnector .

Why does the customer need this? (List the business requirements)

To easily generate metrics from logs without the need of storing them or creating ad-hoc metrics.

List any affected packages or components.

Red Hat build of OpenTelemetry