David Ashpole

> I think that the downward API can currently also expose labels and annotations. ... I am wondering if there's a space to include such capability via env resource detection....

> What do you think about configuring additional env var holding resource attributes related to k8s in separated var like ... That seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do,...

> please consider to also refer to that proposal of supporting OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES_* Done.

Thanks @seh, i've added that to the drawbacks of using dependent environment variables.

/gcbrun

You are probably right. Using the region in regional clusters would match what GKE does for container/pod/cluster metrics.

Unfortunately, the change that added the functions (and description), https://github.com/census-ecosystem/opencensus-go-exporter-stackdriver/pull/121, doesn't have any details on _why_ having Start and Stop functions is preferable to registering the exporter with a View....

Yeah, I don't think this would be backwards-compatible, so we will probably have to exclude uses in stable modules. I'm in favor of it elsewhere, though.

Thanks for explaining @jmacd. I agree that adding brief comments for when the function name and returned type differ would help clarify. But i'm still in favor of making the...

Very cool. I'll take a look