changelog

Signed-off-by: Alex Boten <223565+codeboten@users.noreply.github.com>

.chloggen/codeboten_consolidate-inout-items.yaml

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+# Use this changelog template to create an entry for release notes.
+
+# One of 'breaking', 'deprecation', 'new_component', 'enhancement', 'bug_fix'
+change_type: breaking
+
+# The name of the component, or a single word describing the area of concern, (e.g. otlpreceiver)
+component: processorhelper
+
+# A brief description of the change.  Surround your text with quotes ("") if it needs to start with a backtick (`).
+note: "Update incoming/outgoing metrics to a single metric with a `otel.signal` attributes."
+
+# One or more tracking issues or pull requests related to the change
+issues: []
+
+# (Optional) One or more lines of additional information to render under the primary note.
+# These lines will be padded with 2 spaces and then inserted directly into the document.
+# Use pipe (|) for multiline entries.
+subtext: |
+  The following metrics were added in the previous version
+  - otelcol_processor_incoming_spans
+  - otelcol_processor_outgoing_spans
+  - otelcol_processor_incoming_metric_points
+  - otelcol_processor_outgoing_metric_points
+  - otelcol_processor_incoming_log_records
+  - otelcol_processor_outgoing_log_records
+
+  They are being replaced with the following to more closely align with OTEP 259:
+  - otelcol_processor_incoming_items
+  - otelcol_processor_outgoing_items
+
+# Optional: The change log or logs in which this entry should be included.
+# e.g. '[user]' or '[user, api]'
+# Include 'user' if the change is relevant to end users.
+# Include 'api' if there is a change to a library API.
+# Default: '[user]'
+change_logs: []