README.md

Exporter Helper

This is a helper exporter that other exporters can depend on. Today, it primarily offers queued retries and resource attributes to metric labels conversion.

⚠️ This exporter should not be added to a service pipeline.

Configuration

The following configuration options can be modified:

• retry_on_failure
  • enabled (default = true)
  • initial_interval (default = 5s): Time to wait after the first failure before retrying; ignored if enabled is false
  • max_interval (default = 30s): Is the upper bound on backoff; ignored if enabled is false
  • max_elapsed_time (default = 120s): Is the maximum amount of time spent trying to send a batch; ignored if enabled is false
• sending_queue
  • enabled (default = true)
  • num_consumers (default = 10): Number of consumers that dequeue batches; ignored if enabled is false
  • queue_size (default = 5000): Maximum number of batches kept in memory before data; ignored if enabled is false; User should calculate this as num_seconds * requests_per_second where:
    • num_seconds is the number of seconds to buffer in case of a backend outage
    • requests_per_second is the average number of requests per seconds.
• resource_to_telemetry_conversion
  • enabled (default = false): If enabled is true, all the resource attributes will be converted to metric labels by default.
• timeout (defult = 5s): Time to wait per individual attempt to send data to a backend.

The full list of settings exposed for this helper exporter are documented here.