Nica and Ankit discuss the benefits of a Kafka queue for your OTLP data. Further reading:

Kafka Exporter https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/exporter/kafkaexporter

OpenTelemetry for messaging systems - Kafka https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2022/instrument-kafka-clients/

Confluent on Monitoring Kafka [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch