Werk #19122: OTel: remove glibc dependency for distro-agnostic collector binary

Component

Checks & agents

Title

OTel: remove glibc dependency for distro-agnostic collector binary

Date

Jan 23, 2026

Level

Trivial Change

Class

Bug Fix

Compatibility

Compatible - no manual interaction needed

Checkmk versions & editions

2.6.0b1 Not yet released	Checkmk Cloud (CCE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
2.5.0b1 Not yet released	Checkmk Cloud (CCE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
2.4.0p21	Checkmk Cloud (CCE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

Fixed an issue where the OpenTelemetry Collector build depended on glibc ≥ 2.34, causing failures on older Linux distributions. The glibc dependency was removed to ensure cross-distro compatibility.

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