Hi Dev team OpenTelemetry SkyWalking Exporter[1] was first added into `open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib` before OAP OTLP support. It transforms the logs to SkyWalking format before sending them to SkyWalking OAP. Currently, from OTLP community, it is not well maintained, and already being marked as `unmaintained`, and may be removed in 2024.
#### Unmaintained > A component identified as unmaintained does not have an active code owner. > Such component may have never been assigned a code owner or a previously > active code owner has not responded to requests for feedback within 6 weeks > of being contacted. Issues and pull requests for unmaintained components will > be labelled as such. After 6 months of being unmaintained, these components > will be removed from official distribution. Components that are unmaintained > are actively seeking contributors to become code owners. Recommend using [OpenTelemetry OTLP Exporter](#opentelemetry-otlp-exporter) to forward collected logs to OAP server in OTLP format, and SkyWalking OAP is responsible for transforming the data format into native log format with analysis support powered by LAL[2] [1] https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/5133f4ccd69fa40d016c5b7f2198fb6ac61007b4/exporter/skywalkingexporter [2] https://skywalking.apache.org/docs/main/latest/en/concepts-and-designs/lal/ Sheng Wu 吴晟 Twitter, wusheng1108
