Closed martinrw closed 1 year ago
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I'm experiencing the same exception happening quite frequently.
Is "data_type": "\u0000"
a valid data type? Just guessing..
This is a duplicate of #13443, there's more discussion there.
Component(s)
exporter/prometheus
What happened?
Description
We are seeing the error " failed to translate metric" in our logs for prometheus exporter for some of our metrics. We are collecting metrics from the otel agent +libraries from a bunch of springboot, nodejs and python services, most of these are working perfectly fine but we see this error quite frequently in our logs.
I am unable to pinpoint these errors to a specific service or runtime or version of the agent etc even after enabling debug logs.
It is happening for a few different metrics such as: http.server.duration http.client.request.size http.client.duration
Steps to Reproduce
Expected Result
Metrics are written to the /metrics endpoint to be scanned by prometheus
Actual Result
Error message in the logs, data point is dropped
Collector version
0.85
Environment information
No response
OpenTelemetry Collector configuration
Log output
Additional context
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