David Ashpole

Here was my take from 2020: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jHOYTRRI91UdyMEfqV7WNPEAxSQKP13b_jPcQX4oe9I/edit?usp=sharing TL;DR Other projects ([prometheus](https://github.com/cncf/prometheus-conformance), [kubernetes](https://github.com/cncf/k8s-conformance)) have successfully created conformance programs by testing conformant behavior, rather than requiring the use of certain code packages....

Start timestamp is currently under-specified in SDKs, and is currently primarily used to correctly calculate rates in the presence of restarts: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/blob/main/specification/metrics/data-model.md#temporality. SDKs don't currently have the ability to delete...

> A point in OTel is what we call a sample in Prometheus, right? I guess what is unclear is "initial observation of what?". I think "initial observation" here is...

That sounds good to me.

I will sponsor the component

We can go over the configuration in the implementation PR. I would expect the config to look similar to the list API: https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/api/ref_v3/rest/v3/projects.timeSeries/list

There is a [CopyTo function](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/blob/6888f8f7a45fd6dff4dfc29a82802c95459f619c/pdata/pmetric/generated_metric.go#L242) for metrics, but i'm not sure if that is what is needed here.

Fixed by https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pull/33781

triage: * Context deadline exceeded means the client timed out when trying to send to the backend. * The error is generic, so it is likely that people posting above...

I am willing to potentially sponsor this, but I would would love to see if any others have needed to store very large or sensitive attributes separately. I plan to...