add view configuration documentation (open-telemetry#7267)

Signed-off-by: alex boten <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: opentelemetrybot <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Tiffany Hrabusa <[email protected]>

Author: 3 people

content/en/docs/collector/internal-telemetry.md

@@ -129,6 +129,29 @@ service:
       level: detailed
 ```
 
+You can further configure how metrics from the Collector are emitted by using
+[`views`](/docs/specs/otel/metrics/sdk/#view). For example, the following
+configuration updates the metric named `otelcol_process_uptime` to emit a new
+name `process_uptime` and description:
+
+```yaml
+service:
+  telemetry:
+    metrics:
+      views:
+        - selector:
+            instrument_name: otelcol_process_uptime
+            instrument_type:
+          stream:
+            name: process_uptime
+            description: The amount of time the Collector has been up
+```
+
+You can also use `views` to update the resulting aggregation, attributes, and
+cardinality limits. For the full list of options, see the examples in the
+OpenTelemetry Configuration schema
+[repository](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-configuration/blob/f4e9046682d4386ea533ef7ba6ad30a5ce4451b4/examples/kitchen-sink.yaml#L440).
+
 ### Configure internal logs
 
 Log output is found in `stderr`. You can configure logs in the config

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