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	No-op Exporter
| Status | |
|---|---|
| Stability | beta: traces, metrics, logs | 
| Distributions | core, contrib, k8s | 
| Issues | |
| Code Owners | @evan-bradley | 
Serves as a placeholder exporter in a pipeline. This can be useful if you want to e.g. start a Collector with only extensions enabled, or for testing Collector pipeline throughput without worrying about an exporter.
Getting Started
All that is required to enable the No-op exporter is to include it in the exporter definitions. It takes no configuration.
exporters:
  nop: