Dmitry Anoshin

Hey @splunkericl. I'm curios what is your use case? > If the otel collector user adds their own metrics they would end up having the same prefix What metrics do...

Also the issue title mentions [prometheus exporter](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/exporter/prometheusexporter) which not part of this repo

It makes sense now. Thanks for clarifying.

@bogdandrutu I don't think we can just remove the namespace. The collector's metrics are widely adopted in the current form. It'll be a significant breaking change for collector users that...

> I still believe that we should not allow users to change it (not expose this option). We made this decision to have "otelcol" prefix fine, we will not break...

As discussed with @splunkericl, solving https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/issues/5882 will make this issue not needed anymore

Issue description is bit confusing. Can you please reply to https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/issues/5692#issuecomment-1201571189

Why do you believe the problem is caused by the batch processor? Does removing it from the processors list solve the problem? Did you try moving it to the end?

@davidgargti20 can you try moving it further in the list of processor and see if the issue goes away?

@djaglowski said it can be upstreamed