I appreciate this is a (very) late reply! The signalfx exporter breaks down the histogram into their aggregates metrics by default (backward compability).
Use the parameter send_otlp_histograms on the signalfx exporter config and you will get the proper histogram.
https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/exporter/signalfxexporter
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