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fix a link to env config spec/docs (#95)
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Opted for the opentelemetry.io web site which might have more stable
content locations than the github repo.

Co-authored-by: Mike Goldsmith <[email protected]>
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robbkidd and MikeGoldsmith authored Apr 26, 2023
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- No code changes required - any Go application can be instrumented without modifying the source code.
- Support wide range of Go applications - instrumentation is supported for Go version 1.12 and above. In addition, a common practice for Go applications is to shrink the binary size by stripping debug symbols via `go build -ldflags "-s -w"`. This instrumentation works for stripped binaries as well.
- Configuration is done via `OTEL_*` environment variables according to [OpenTelemetry Environment Variable Specification](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/blob/main/specification/sdk-environment-variables.md#general-sdk-configuration).
- Configuration is done via `OTEL_*` environment variables according to [OpenTelemetry Environment Variable Specification](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/reference/specification/sdk-environment-variables/#general-sdk-configuration).
**In order to inject instrumentation into your process, set the `OTEL_TARGET_EXE` environment variable to the path of the target executable. This is not a part of the OTEL specification mentioned above.**
- Instrumented libraries follow the [OpenTelemetry specification](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification) and semantic conventions to produce standard OpenTelemetry data.

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