Proposed title of this feature request

Aggregate metrics from logs in the Opentelemetry collector for tech-preview

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