How to run external Spaceport?

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I'm curious about/interested in running a standalone Spaceport process that I can integrate with our GraphQL server/gateway (which is not Rover). Basically, I have dozens of gateway processes running per host and I want to send trace reports to a single local collector, and allow it to manage batching and queuing of messages to Studio ingress.
Bonus points if this collector is supported by Apollo 🙂

There used to be a bit more info about doing this, now it's a bit more sparse.

Any pointers on how to run Spaceport standalone? Information on the protocol used to communicate with it? Insight into how Apollo intends to support this configuration (or not), or whether this is a reasonable use case? All are welcome, thanks!