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There should be more observability around exporter helper start up and shutdown #10201

Open splunkericl opened 4 months ago

splunkericl commented 4 months ago

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. As a user of otel collector, I find it hard to see which exporter helper component is stuck starting up or shutting down. Some of the examples in the past:

When debugging these problems, it isn't clear that the components are stuck.

Describe the solution you'd like A debug message is added at the beginning of startup/shutdown and at the end of the startup/shutdown. Components we should add:

Describe alternatives you've considered Add it as INFO logs but it can be too noisy

Additional context

dmitryax commented 4 months ago

The logs should be debug level if it's for troubleshooting

timannguyen commented 4 months ago

i'll take this up