open-telemetry / open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python
Basic protection against the unintended cardinality explosion or similar problems
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Since May 16, 2023.
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Description
We should have a some basic checks in place to make sure the unintended programming mistakes that might lead to high memory usage and affect the main application performance. We may probably need to introduce some limits on number resulting metric streams. And how much time measurements are kept in memory before we give up and drop them with warning message for pull exporters. Related #874
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