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extend glossary
Signed-off-by: Florian Lehner <[email protected]>
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### Signals
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OpenTelemetry is structured around signals, or categories of telemetry.
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Metrics, logs, traces, and baggage are examples of signals.
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Metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and baggage are examples of signals.
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Each signal represents a coherent, stand-alone set of functionality.
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Each signal follows a separate lifecycle, defining its current stability level.
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terms "log bridge" and "log appender" are used interchangeably, reflecting that
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these components bridge data into OpenTelemetry, but are often called appenders
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in the logging domain.
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## Profiles
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Profiles describes the OpenTelemetry signal.
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### Profile
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In the context of the profiles signal, profile holds one or more stacktraces of
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a OpenTelemetry instrumentation scope.
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### Profiling
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Profiling describes the process of collecting data that will be reported with
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the profiles signal.

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