From 6fc48a520c4e2aff77390c4413c5767f7879c8cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ramya Achutha Rao <ramyar@microsoft.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2020 19:03:30 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] span.kind need not be cast to string

---
 sdk/monitor/opentelemetry-exporter/src/utils/spanUtils.ts | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sdk/monitor/opentelemetry-exporter/src/utils/spanUtils.ts b/sdk/monitor/opentelemetry-exporter/src/utils/spanUtils.ts
index e8c23a740489..1cf6398e07e8 100644
--- a/sdk/monitor/opentelemetry-exporter/src/utils/spanUtils.ts
+++ b/sdk/monitor/opentelemetry-exporter/src/utils/spanUtils.ts
@@ -210,9 +210,9 @@ export function readableSpanToEnvelope(
     default:
       // never
       if (logger) {
-        logger.error(`Unsupported span kind ${span.kind as string}`);
+        logger.error(`Unsupported span kind ${span.kind}`);
       }
-      throw new Error(`Unsupported span kind ${span.kind as string}`);
+      throw new Error(`Unsupported span kind ${span.kind}`);
   }
 
   envelope.data.baseData = { ...data, properties };