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-# Metric Receiver Metadata
-
-Receivers can contain a `metadata.yaml` file that documents the metrics that may be emitted by the receiver.
-
-Current examples:
-
-* hostmetricsreceiver scrapers like the [cpuscraper](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/blob/main/receiver/hostmetricsreceiver/internal/scraper/cpuscraper/metadata.yaml)
-
-See [metric-metadata.yaml](metric-metadata.yaml) for file format documentation.
-
-If adding a new receiver a `codegen.go` file should also be added to trigger the generation. See below for details.
-
-## Build
-
-When `go generate` is run (it is run automatically in the make build targets) there are a few special build directives in `codegen.go` files:
-
-`make install-tools` results in `cmd/mdatagen` being installed to `GOBIN`
-
-[/receiver/hostmetricsreceiver/internal/scraper/cpuscraper/codegen.go](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/blob/main/receiver/hostmetricsreceiver/internal/scraper/cpuscraper/codegen.go) runs `mdatagen` for the `hostmetricsreceiver` metadata.yaml which generates the [/receiver/hostmetricsreceiver/internal/scraper/cpuscraper/internal/metadata](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/receiver/hostmetricsreceiver/internal/scraper/cpuscraper/internal/metadata) package which has Go files containing metric and label metadata.
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-# Required: name of the receiver.
-name:
-
-# Optional: map of label definitions with the key being the label name and value
-# being described below.
-labels:
-  label.name:
-    # Optional: if the label name as described by the key is not the actual label
-    # value to be reported that value can be overridden here.
-    value:
-    # Required: description of the label.
-    description:
-    # Optional: array of label values if they are static values.
-    enum:
-
-# Required: map of metric names with the key being the metric name and value
-# being described below.
-metrics:
-  metric.name:
-    # Required: metric description
-    description:
-    # Required: metric type as defined by https://ucum.org/ucum.html
-    unit:
-    # Required
-    data:
-      # Required: one of int gauge, int sum, gauge, sum, or histogram.
-      type:
-      # Required for int sum and sum.
-      monotonic: # true | false
-      # Required for int sum, sum, and histogram.
-      aggregation: # delta | cumulative
-    # Optional: array of labels that were defined in the labels section that are emitted by this metric.
-    labels: