otelcol-compression-field.md

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By default, requests are compressed with gzip. The compression argument controls which compression mechanism to use. Supported strings are:

• "gzip"

• "zlib"

• "deflate"

• "snappy"

• "zstd"

If compression is set to "none" or an empty string "", no compression is used.