The purpose and use-cases of the new component

In similar fashion to the existingcumulativetodeltaprocessor, this component aggregates delta samples to their respective cumulative counterpart

Anextensive design doc has been written to explore this idea.

Example configuration for the component

interval:60sstale:5m

Telemetry data types supported

• metrics (sum, histogram, exp. histogram)

Code Owner(s)

@gouthamve@sh0rez

Sponsor (optional)

@jpkrohling

Additional context

Prior discussion:

• https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/issues/1422
• [exporter/prometheusexporter] accumulate delta temporality histograms #23790
• feat: delta to cumulative prometheus #9919
• Proposal: Metric Aggregation Processor #4968