From 5f14f6c2223187bbd2da0828afb257437f832cd8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tyler Helmuth <12352919+TylerHelmuth@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 04:02:34 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] [collector] Remove references to the memory ballast extension
 (#4870)

---
 content/en/docs/collector/configuration.md    |  2 --
 content/en/docs/collector/troubleshooting.md  |  3 ---
 content/en/docs/kubernetes/helm/collector.md  |  3 ---
 data/registry/collector-extension-ballast.yml | 17 -----------------
 4 files changed, 25 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 data/registry/collector-extension-ballast.yml

diff --git a/content/en/docs/collector/configuration.md b/content/en/docs/collector/configuration.md
index 66f97743ea13..287241d478eb 100644
--- a/content/en/docs/collector/configuration.md
+++ b/content/en/docs/collector/configuration.md
@@ -545,8 +545,6 @@ extensions:
   health_check:
   pprof:
   zpages:
-  memory_ballast:
-    size_mib: 512
 ```
 
 > For detailed extension configuration, see the
diff --git a/content/en/docs/collector/troubleshooting.md b/content/en/docs/collector/troubleshooting.md
index 2483bddb0058..e21431c92f9b 100644
--- a/content/en/docs/collector/troubleshooting.md
+++ b/content/en/docs/collector/troubleshooting.md
@@ -207,9 +207,6 @@ extensions:
   - name: zpages
     stability:
       extension: Beta
-  - name: memory_ballast
-    stability:
-      extension: Deprecated
   - name: health_check
     stability:
       extension: Beta
diff --git a/content/en/docs/kubernetes/helm/collector.md b/content/en/docs/kubernetes/helm/collector.md
index 35ca41f770b1..6e83e8da3e90 100644
--- a/content/en/docs/kubernetes/helm/collector.md
+++ b/content/en/docs/kubernetes/helm/collector.md
@@ -42,8 +42,6 @@ exporters:
   debug: {}
 extensions:
   health_check: {}
-  memory_ballast:
-    size_in_percentage: 40
 processors:
   batch: {}
   memory_limiter:
@@ -78,7 +76,6 @@ receivers:
 service:
   extensions:
     - health_check
-    - memory_ballast
   pipelines:
     logs:
       exporters:
diff --git a/data/registry/collector-extension-ballast.yml b/data/registry/collector-extension-ballast.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 7222358250f7..000000000000
--- a/data/registry/collector-extension-ballast.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-# cSpell:ignore ballastextension
-title: Memory Ballast
-registryType: extension
-language: collector
-tags:
-  - ballast
-  - extension
-  - collector
-license: Apache 2.0
-description:
-  Memory Ballast extension enables applications to configure memory ballast for
-  the process.
-authors:
-  - name: OpenTelemetry Authors
-urls:
-  repo: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/tree/main/extension/ballastextension
-createdAt: 2022-11-07