open-telemetry / open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python

Getting exception while using PeriodicExportingMetricReader from export library

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Description

Hi Team,

After importing following
**from opentelemetry.sdk.metrics.export import (
ConsoleMetricExporter,
PeriodicExportingMetricReader,

metric_reader = PeriodicExportingMetricReader(OTLPMetricExporter(endpoint="http://localhost:4317/", insecure=True), export_interval_millis=60000)**

getting following exception every 60 seconds. Though its not impacting functionality and able to export metrics successfully, but still getting following error in logs.

Exception: Invalid type <class 'NoneType'> of value None
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/opentelemetry/exporter/otlp/proto/grpc/exporter.py", line 299, in _translate_attributes

Could you please help here, what could be wrong in configuration ?

Thanks.

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Reproduce the periodic export with PeriodicExportingMetricReader and OTLPMetricExporter, then inspect _translate_attributes in opentelemetry/exporter/otlp/proto/grpc/exporter.py around the reported exception. Compare the exporter logs with the successful metric export and trace the None value to its source. Done means periodic exports remain successful without the recurring exception.

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