OpenTelemetry-compatible backends (OTLP)

[stevapple]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
OpenTelemetry is a new and widely adopted standard in distributed tracing. Many well-known backends are OTLP-compatible now, so adding OTLP support will unblock new backends as well as improving already-supported backends like Jaeger.

Describe the solution you'd like
Implements OTLP support and add a new OpenTelemetry-compatible backend support.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Don’t add OpenTelemetry support at this time. OTLP heavily uses Protobuf, which may be troublesome.

Additional context
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[kespineira]

Hi! Any update on this @Pierre-Lannoy? I see you had put it in the 4.0.0 milestone but nothing was done for that milestone.

[tlvenn]

This would be really awesome to see as it will allow to plug seamlessly so many different backends such as Signoz which is built on open telemetry standards.