open-telemetry / open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python
Expose max_export_batch_size as environment variable
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Description
AFAICT max_export_batch_size introduced in https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/2809 cannot be set as an environment variable.
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Research direction
Start by reading the introduction of max_export_batch_size in pull request #2809 and trace how the setting is configured. Identify the corresponding environment-variable handling and tests, then verify that the variable can set the batch size and that existing configuration behavior remains covered.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- observability-sre
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100