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add user agent to OTLP exporter spec #2684
add user agent to OTLP exporter spec #2684
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Overall good, but we need more eyes on this. @open-telemetry/specs-approvers please take a look. |
The following PR adds a section to the OTLP exporter about setting a user agent. This was implemented in the otel collector and provides users with additional information to troubleshoot their telemetry pipelines with.
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I would make this an "option" maybe opt-out. |
@bogdandrutu today most (i believe at least all grpc and many http) OTLP exporters already have a user agent header, something like |
Co-authored-by: Armin Ruech <[email protected]>
@bogdandrutu Any further opinion on this? |
This PR was marked stale due to lack of activity. It will be closed in 7 days. |
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LGTM.
* add user agent to OTLP exporter spec The following PR adds a section to the OTLP exporter about setting a user agent. This was implemented in the otel collector and provides users with additional information to troubleshoot their telemetry pipelines with.
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The following PR adds a section to the OTLP exporter about setting a user agent. This was implemented in the otel collector and provides users with additional information to troubleshoot their telemetry pipelines with. This was discussed in the context of #2501. It's worth noting that the OpenTelemetry collector is currently setting a user agent in the format:
Additionally, existing exporters are already sending this header (using whatever the underlying library is setting), it's just not set to anything OpenTelemetry specific.
Related issues #2501