open-telemetry / open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python

OTLP/HTTP exporter should honour the spec retry status codes

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Description

See the table here https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/blob/main/specification/protocol/otlp.md#failures-1

I was kind of confused to see that table and the retry section here define differently https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/blob/main/specification/protocol/exporter.md#retry. So we should probably seek some clarification before actually implementing this change.

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Research direction

Start with the OTLP specification's Failures table and the Exporter retry section linked in the issue. Resolve the discrepancy before implementation; done means the applicable retry status-code behavior and the resulting change scope are agreed.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
observability-sre
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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