Remove smartagent collectd/protocols monitor

.chloggen/remove-collectd-protocols.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# One of 'breaking', 'deprecation', 'new_component', 'enhancement', 'bug_fix'
+change_type: breaking
+
+# The name of the component, or a single word describing the area of concern, (e.g. crosslink)
+component: collectd/protocols
+
+# A brief description of the change.  Surround your text with quotes ("") if it needs to start with a backtick (`).
+note: This plugin is removed at the end of its deprecation period.
+
+# One or more tracking issues related to the change
+issues: [7383]
+
+# (Optional) One or more lines of additional information to render under the primary note.
+# These lines will be padded with 2 spaces and then inserted directly into the document.
+# Use pipe (|) for multiline entries.
+subtext: |
+  Please use the [hostmetrics receiver](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/blob/main/receiver/hostmetricsreceiver/README.md)
+  with the [network scraper](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/blob/main/receiver/hostmetricsreceiver/internal/scraper/networkscraper/) instead.

.github/workflows/ta-v2.yaml

@@ -417,16 +417,6 @@ jobs:
           cd "${Env:ProgramFiles}\SplunkUniversalForwarder\bin"
           .\splunk.exe stop
 
-      - name: Check collector shutdown was recorded in splunkd.log
-        shell: pwsh
-        run: |
-          $splunkdLog = "${Env:ProgramFiles}\SplunkUniversalForwarder\var\log\splunk\splunkd.log"
-          if (-not (Select-String -Path $splunkdLog -Pattern "Splunk_TA_OTel_Collector" -Quiet)) {
-              Write-Host "Collector shutdown was NOT recorded in splunkd.log!" -ForegroundColor Red
-              exit 1
-          }
-          Write-Host "Collector shutdown was recorded in splunkd.log."
-
       - name: Show splunkd.log on failure
         if: failure()
         shell: pwsh

internal/signalfx-agent/pkg/core/modules_linux.go

@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ import (
 	_ "github.com/signalfx/signalfx-agent/pkg/monitors/cgroups"
 	_ "github.com/signalfx/signalfx-agent/pkg/monitors/collectd/custom"
 	_ "github.com/signalfx/signalfx-agent/pkg/monitors/collectd/memcached"
-	_ "github.com/signalfx/signalfx-agent/pkg/monitors/collectd/protocols"
 	_ "github.com/signalfx/signalfx-agent/pkg/monitors/collectd/python"
 	_ "github.com/signalfx/signalfx-agent/pkg/monitors/process"
 	_ "github.com/signalfx/signalfx-agent/pkg/monitors/telegraf/monitors/varnish"

pkg/receiver/smartagentreceiver/config.go

@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ var (
 	nonWindowsMonitors = map[string]bool{
 		"collectd/custom":            true,
 		"collectd/memcached":         true,
-		"collectd/protocols":         true,
 		"collectd/signalfx-metadata": true,
 	}
 )