feat: support continuing on err in beatsauthextension #796
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Summary / What does this PR do?
This PR teaches
beatsauthextensionto optionally continue running when its HTTP/TLS configuration is invalid, while still surfacing the failure via the OTel component status API and propagating the error to dependent exporters.Key changes
continue_on_errorto the extension config.true, the extension does not fail Collector startup; it reports a PermanentError via component status and exposes aRoundTripperthat returns the captured error on use.false(default), startup fails as before.componentstatussohealthcheckv2/ status endpoints can reflect extension health.This preserves clarity (like Beats subprocesses) without taking down the whole Collector process.
Why is it important?
Using Beats HTTP transport for the Elasticsearch exporter means a bad TLS/auth config currently causes the entire Collector to exit during extension creation, obscuring which output/config failed. We need to: