Added info about fluentd deprecation date

.chloggen/fluentddeprecationdocs.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# One of 'breaking', 'deprecation', 'new_component', 'enhancement', 'bug_fix'
+change_type: 'enhancement'
+# The name of the component, or a single word describing the area of concern, (e.g. agent, clusterReceiver, gateway, operator, chart, other)
+component: 'chart'
+# A brief description of the change. Surround your text with quotes ("") if it needs to start with a backtick (`).
+note: "Added a note anbout the deprecation of the `fluentd` option in the chart"
+# One or more tracking issues related to the change
+issues: []

README.md

@@ -84,6 +84,8 @@ This distribution currently supports:
   exporter](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/exporter/splunkhecexporter).
   - Interested in sending logs to Splunk Cloud via OTLP for improved backpressure handling and performance? [Sign up for the preview](https://voc.splunk.com/preview/otlp) today!
 
+**Fluentd logs engine will be deprecated in October 2025.** While it can still be used until then, migrating to the native OTEL logs engine before this date is strongly recommended.
+
 ## Supported Kubernetes distributions
 
 The Helm chart works with default configurations of the main Kubernetes distributions. Use actively supported versions:

helm-charts/splunk-otel-collector/values.yaml

@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ splunkObservability:
 #   otel-collector agent for further processing.
 # - `otel`: utilize native OpenTelemetry log collection.
 #
-# `fluentd` will be deprecated soon, so it's recommended to use `otel` instead.
+# `fluentd` will be deprecated in October 2025, so it's recommended to use `otel` instead.
 ################################################################################
 
 logsEngine: otel
@@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ logsCollection:
 ################################################################################
 # Fluentd sidecar configuration for logs collection.
 # Applicable only if "logsEngine: fluentd".
-# Fluentd will be deprecated soon, so it's recommended to use "logsEngine: otel" instead.
+# Fluentd will be deprecated in October 2025, so it's recommended to use "logsEngine: otel" instead.
 ################################################################################
 
 fluentd: