feat: e2e SDK→Collector performance benchmark of window aggregation

[zzylol]

Summary

This PR adds an end-to-end performance benchmark for the SDK→Collector pipeline across sketch types, and aligns the benchmark setup to reflect realistic aggregation behavior.

New files

• opentelemetry-app/cmd/e2esdkbench/main.go: Go benchmark that drives the SDK under configurable load, measures bandwidth (loopback TX via /proc/net/dev), SDK heap/CPU (runtime.ReadMemStats + syscall.Getrusage), and writes per-second CSV + summary JSON per run.
• otel_collector_benchmark/bench_sdk_e2e.sh: Shell orchestration script — iterates sketch types and rates, starts/stops the appropriate collector binary, monitors collector CPU/memory via ps, and aggregates results into aggregate_summary.csv.
• opentelemetry-collector-contrib-patch/cmd/nopcol/config-bench.yaml: Nop collector config for the baseline (OTLP receive → nop processor → nop exporter).

SDK changes (opentelemetry-go-patch)

• Removed unused Noop() aggregate builder.
• Minor formatting cleanup in pipeline.go (no logic change).

Benchmark design

Sketch types in scope: baseline, ddsketch, kll, hll
(CountSketch and CountMinSketch dropped — CountSketch has no per-series aggregation support.)

Instruments: All modes use Float64Gauge. Sketch types attach a view to override the default LastValue aggregation with the sketch aggregation. Baseline uses no view — the gauge's natural LastValue sends one raw sample per series per export.

SDK side:

• Workers record at 1s / samples_per_sec_per_series (e.g. every 20ms at 50 sps/s).
• Sketch types: PeriodicReader exports every 1 second, so each exported sketch aggregates all samples recorded in that window.
• Baseline: PeriodicReader exports at the worker rate (e.g. every 20ms), so every raw sample is sent individually with no aggregation.

Collector side:

• Sketch processors run in mode: window with a 10s tumbling window, aggregating per series across 10 consecutive SDK exports before flushing.
• Baseline uses nopcol: OTLP receive → nop processor → nop exporter (zero processing overhead).
• max_recv_msg_size_mib: 64 on HLL collector for large per-series payloads at high rates.

Collector config changes (opentelemetry-collector-contrib-patch)

• All sketch types in bench_sdk_e2e.sh now use config-window.yaml.
• hllcol/config-window.yaml: add max_recv_msg_size_mib: 64, set drop_original: true.
• countsketchcol/config-window.yaml: window_size 5s → 10s, add max_recv_msg_size_mib: 64, remove batch processor and debug exporter.
• countminsketchcol/config-window.yaml: add max_recv_msg_size_mib: 64.
• nopcol/builder-config.yaml: replace debugexporter/otlpexporter with nopexporter.
• nopcol/config-bench.yaml: nop processor + nop exporter pipeline (no batch, no debug).

Benchmark results

Config: 60s duration · 1,000 series · rates: 1K / 10K / 100K / 1M MPS · window mode (10s tumbling window)

BW = gRPC wire bytes from SDK. SDK CPU% = user+sys over wall time. Collector CPU/Mem sampled via ps every 1s.

SDK-side metrics

Sketch	Rate MPS	BW avg KB/s	BW peak KB/s	SDK Heap avg MB	SDK Heap peak MB	SDK CPU%
baseline	1,000	50.55	53.57	20.89	36.58	2.27%
baseline	10,000	517.11	519.57	21.70	39.41	20.63%
baseline	100,000	5,095.31	5,226.86	14.81	22.74	196.17%
baseline	1,000,000	4,441.10	4,925.59	15.39	20.22	496.91%
ddsketch	1,000	337.80	553.50	21.09	33.98	4.76%
ddsketch	10,000	1,284.41	1,887.04	21.87	39.31	18.36%
ddsketch	100,000	2,187.07	2,366.01	26.99	34.52	78.41%
ddsketch	1,000,000	2,312.95	2,399.55	15.31	19.49	382.73%
kll	1,000	334.19	444.56	15.54	21.76	3.20%
kll	10,000	857.36	1,381.25	14.61	21.22	10.75%
kll	100,000	1,212.08	1,602.03	11.59	15.35	55.00%
kll	1,000,000	1,267.59	1,496.60	11.96	15.52	305.75%
hll	1,000	15,375.57	16,134.54	87.86	157.38	15.19%
hll	10,000	15,847.89	16,126.94	102.22	161.92	19.95%
hll	100,000	15,852.71	16,148.59	77.39	111.93	65.87%
hll	1,000,000	15,848.31	16,140.86	27.77	33.98	450.81%

Collector-side metrics

Sketch	Rate MPS	Col CPU avg%	Col CPU peak%	Col Mem avg MB	Col Mem peak MB
baseline	1,000	0.31%	0.40%	29.47	31.80
baseline	10,000	2.36%	2.70%	32.87	34.50
baseline	100,000	20.96%	25.40%	32.58	34.66
baseline	1,000,000	19.49%	23.20%	33.07	35.24
ddsketch	1,000	1.26%	3.80%	184.15	195.35
ddsketch	10,000	1.70%	4.00%	206.25	235.40
ddsketch	100,000	2.24%	4.00%	223.57	248.21
ddsketch	1,000,000	2.46%	4.00%	222.98	239.47
kll	1,000	0.52%	0.60%	33.29	36.60
kll	10,000	0.69%	0.80%	42.96	65.80
kll	100,000	0.79%	1.00%	59.58	73.05
kll	1,000,000	1.02%	1.20%	61.07	73.99
hll	1,000	8.29%	10.10%	162.17	193.31
hll	10,000	8.56%	10.20%	167.92	195.40
hll	100,000	8.67%	10.40%	168.28	203.57
hll	1,000,000	9.57%	11.40%	167.86	195.57

Key observations

• Baseline SDK CPU scales linearly with rate (2% → 497%) with stable ~33 MB collector memory — pure OTLP overhead.
• KLL has the lowest collector overhead of all sketch types: CPU stays under 1% across all rates, memory grows modestly (33 → 61 MB) as the compactor accumulates more levels. SDK CPU is 3–4× below DDSketch at equivalent rates.
• DDSketch collector CPU is near-constant (1.3–2.5%) regardless of rate — the 10s window absorbs bursts. Collector memory is high (184–224 MB) and grows with rate, driven by the dynamic bucket store accumulating more distinct values per window.
• HLL bandwidth is flat at ~15.8 MB/s regardless of rate — each of the 1,000 series carries a full 16 KB register array (precision=14, 16,384 registers) every export. Collector memory (~162–168 MB) is dominated by these large payloads in flight through the gRPC/pipeline/window-store layers simultaneously.

Test plan

• Rebuild nopcol binary (BUILD_ALWAYS=1 ./bench_sdk_e2e.sh --sketch baseline)
• Run ./bench_sdk_e2e.sh --sketch all --duration 60s --series 1000 --rates "1000 10000 100000 1000000"
• Confirm all 4 sketch types × rates complete and write to aggregate_summary.csv
• Confirm no ResourceExhausted errors in collector logs

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[zzylol]

@GnaneshGnani FYI