The exporter should propagate the deadline of the caller into the received context. The receiver should optionally apply the callers context or possibly ignore it but set a preconfigured deadline for the consumer call. Otherwise, we are calling the OTel pipeline without any deadline, which is dangerous.
This can be done using the existing header propagation mechanism.
jmacd
commented
3 weeks ago
The exporter should propagate the deadline of the caller into the received context. The receiver should optionally apply the callers context or possibly ignore it but set a preconfigured deadline for the consumer call. Otherwise, we are calling the OTel pipeline without any deadline, which is dangerous.
This can be done using the existing header propagation mechanism.