Werk #18182: OTel: Sanitze metric name for high cardinality metrics

Component Checks & agents
Title OTel: Sanitze metric name for high cardinality metrics
Date Sep 29, 2025
Level Trivial Change
Class Bug Fix
Compatibility Incompatible - Manual interaction might be required
Checkmk versions & editions
2.5.0b1
Not yet released
Checkmk Cloud (CCE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
2.4.0p14
Not yet released
Checkmk Cloud (CCE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

When implementing high cadinality metrics aka services with a high number of metrics (>20) in Open Telemetry services, the wrong metric name was used.

This werk changes the metric name to be properly sanitized for the rrd metric backend.

Metric data will be lost, since the metric name changes.

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