* Add Istio control plane otel MAL expressions and UI template
* Remove OpenCensus receiver, add OpenTelemetry receiver
* Transfer oc receiver to ot receiver
* Create indices on boot
* Document istio metrics and otel receiver
* Update CHANGES.md
* Fix potential NPE
* Add group to meter and cleanup istio mixer
* Update e2e case due to the change of meter metric name
* Update prometheus fetcher config, fix sql builder issue of h2
* Disable istio and so11y metrics by default.
* Fix micrometer testcase

* Add FAQ about VNode on the UI.
Co-authored-by: Nkezhenxu94 <kezhenxu94@apache.org>

Update the logo wall.

* Add v8 upgrade document and fix some tiny doc issues.

* Add link to STAM paper.

* Add python project into the project page

* Update README.md
Co-authored-by: 吴晟 Wu Sheng <wu.sheng@foxmail.com>

* Support default value in labeled-value and heatmap query.

* Update a little document.

Here are the basic and simple usages of the MeterSystem APIs.

## Meter Creation
New meter could be created based on metrics name, function, scope and data type. 
1. Metrics name is still the storage entity name.
2. Functions are every similar with the OAL function, just accepting different input.
```java
final MeterSystem meterSystem = MeterSystem.meterSystem(getManager());
meterSystem.create("test_long_metrics", "avg", ScopeType.SERVICE, Long.class);
```
NOTICE, this creation should only be called in the `module#prepare` stage, otherwise, `Can't create new metrics anymore` exception will be raised after the **CORE** module `start` stage finished. You may find out, there is a chance `create` could be executed successfully in your own `module#start` stage, but it it just because of the sequence of provider loaded by the class loader, **no guarantee, so please don't do that**.

## Runtime Calculation
`AcceptableValue` is the object created at the runtime to accept new metrics value.
```java
         final MeterSystem service = getManager().find(CoreModule.NAME).provider().getService(MeterSystem.class);
        Executors.newSingleThreadScheduledExecutor().scheduleAtFixedRate(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                final AcceptableValue<Long> value = service.buildMetrics("test_long_metrics", Long.class);
                value.accept(MeterEntity.newService("abc"), 5L);
                value.setTimeBucket(TimeBucket.getMinuteTimeBucket(System.currentTimeMillis()));
                service.doStreamingCalculation(value);
            }
        }, 2, 2, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
```

## Meter Functions
Right now, only `avg` function has been implemented. I submit this PR as soon as possible to get your feedback. I will add more functions.

## Notice
1. Make slow trace query available in the sampled record. Logically, they are the same thing. The UI doesn't need to concern about the trace as a special case.
2. Endpoint dependency will be removed from the dashboard. Because no query available for it. We will provide a new page for that in 8.1
3. Comparison page will be removed due to dashboard is powerful enough to replace it.

Here are the list of changes we made in this pull request. Top 3 are the principle changes, others are following these principles.
1. New agent and mesh report protocol. 
2. New agent header protocol. 
3. Service register, instance register and network address register have been removed permanently.
4. Service traffic, instance traffic and network alias metrics are added to replace the service, instance and network address inventory.
5. Register process has been removed.
6. Metrics stream process supports insert only mode, especially for traffic entities.
7. Metrics stream process supports no-downsampling mode for traffic entities and network alias.
8. Remove all register mechanism and cache in the java agent.
9. Remove MONTH step in GraphQL query.
10. Update UI to remove MONTH step query, the max query range is 60 days now.
11. Simplify the TTL to metrics and record. And the unit has been formatted in Day unit. No specific TTL for ElasticSearch storage.
12. Buffer mechanism of trace receiver and mesh receiver has been removed due to no register.
13. New service id, instance id and endpoint id rules, including service relation, instance relation and endpoint relation id rules.
14. Java agent support `keep tracing` mode, meaning, agent generating tracing context even the backend is unconnected/unavailable.
15. Plugin test tool up to date, in order to support new protocol.
16. Plugin tests expected data files updated.
17. E2E tests updated.
18. Telemetry of Grafana config has been merged into one.
19. Documentation updates.
20. [TBD] InfluxDB storage implementation is not available, need @dmsolr to fix later, in order to reduce the master change block by this PR.

* Add UI documentation.

* Fix

* Fix size.

* update doc version

* ref 6.x branch

* ref 6.x branch

* update doc/README.md

* remove 5.x ...

* Add more users and typical enterprises.

* Adjust some descriptions.

* Add more companies into powered-by page and root readme.

* Fix typo.

* Add one more bank.