open-telemetry / open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python
Support for async exporters
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Description
Originally from https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/issues/62
Currently exporter interfaces for all signals only expose a regular blocking export function. It would be nice to have async variants.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the exporter interfaces for all signals and the original issue at opentelemetry-python/issues/62. Determine the intended async API scope and compatibility requirements; the work is done when async variants are defined for the relevant exporter interfaces and their expected behavior is specified.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- api, backend, distributed-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100