The latest stable minor release receives security fixes.
OTLP/gRPC uses the same required x-api-key as Agent ingestion. Keep port 50051 private or behind TLS, rotate the shared key if exposed, and redact secrets before telemetry reaches the Collector. Core rejects oversized, malformed, non-finite, future, and retention-expired telemetry.
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