Current compression algorithms seem to support multiple compression levels. These levels determine the speed and efficiency of the compression algorithm.

Lower compression levels provide faster speed but larger file sizes. Compression levels could be 3, 5, 7 or 11. Level 3 seems to be the default across multiple compression algorithms. It could benefit a user to give them the option to save on AWS egress costs by configuring a higher compression level with a tradeoff on processing speed.

Example configuration could looks like below:

exporter:
  otlphttp:
    endpoint: otelcol2:55690
    auth:
      authenticator: some-authenticator-extension
    tls:
      ca_file: ca.pem
      cert_file: cert.pem
      key_file: key.pem
    headers:
      test1: "value1"
      "test 2": "value 2"
    compression
       type: zstd
       level: 7
    cookies:
      enabled: true