Tyler Helmuth

Not yet. I can see why the problem is happening only in k8s: the input string has its `$$` escaped to `$`. K8s is escaping the `$$` to `$`, so...

The bottom of [this section](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/inject-data-application/define-interdependent-environment-variables/#define-an-environment-dependent-variable-for-a-container) specifies that `$`, which is a key symbol in k8s env var to allow dependent env vars such as `value: $(OTHER_ENV_VAR)`, can be escaped with...

@Zurvarian @bart-braidwell @cloudchristina the workaround for now is to do extra escaping in your OpenTelemetryCollector resource configs to account for both Kubernetes' escaping and the Collector's escaping. For example: ```yaml...

@nicolastakashi please review

I also just experienced this issue in the same way as the original description. `usageCoreNanoSeconds` was 0 and `usageNanoCores` was an impossibly high number.