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Link Kubernetes Explorer from the OpenTelemetry docs - #39307

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What does this PR do? What is the motivation?

Kubernetes Explorer supports a native OpenTelemetry setup, but the page documenting it lives under Containers and wasn't linked from the OpenTelemetry section. Someone onboarding through the OpenTelemetry docs had no path to it.

This PR adds two entry points:

  • A Kubernetes Explorer entry in the container and host list on the OpenTelemetry integrations index.
  • A Monitor Kubernetes card in the next steps on the Collector setup page.

No content changes to the Kubernetes Explorer page itself.

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  • Ready for merge

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Reviewed with Claude Code.

Additional notes

Replace the step-by-step configuration fragments on the Kubernetes
Explorer OpenTelemetry tab with a pointer to the Kubernetes Metrics
setup guide and its maintained cluster and node Collector reference
configurations.

Also:
- Add the Datadog site to the secret created in the Kubernetes Metrics
  setup, matching the site the reference configurations read.
- Recommend the kubernetesAttributes Helm preset for custom Collector
  configurations that do not need custom metadata extraction.
- Link Kubernetes Explorer from the OpenTelemetry integrations index and
  the Collector setup next steps.
Move the Kubernetes Explorer setup rewrite and the Kubernetes Metrics
site fix to separate branches so this change covers only the requested
navigation links.
@brett0000FF brett0000FF changed the title Point OTel Kubernetes Explorer setup at reference configurations Link Kubernetes Explorer from the OpenTelemetry docs Aug 18, 2026
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