Sotiris Nanopoulos

@purnesh42H hmmm I have to look into this a bit more, I dont think this example is the best one because it is not immediately obvious how you can retrieve...

Our infra doesnt really support `opentelemetry` so I was looking into how I can export this metrics into a format that is `prometheus` native. So I ended up seeing how...

> In tracing though we have a way to identify if an rpc attempt was a transparent retry or not. Seems reasonable, have to check our implementation of tracing to...

> previous-rpc-attempts: This attribute indeed indicates the number of prior attempts for the RPC. The OTel stats.Handler currently calculates this value internally (using ai.previousRPCAttempts). Does this include `service` level retries?...

> Generally, adding things requires proof that it is either necessary or sufficiently convenient. So the question should be the other way around: what is the issue with doing it...

Make sense @dfawley, thanks for the feedback and the pointer! I still have my reservations: * Recommending to power users this approach via extending the `context` is going to create...

cc @clayton-gonsalves that would also interest us as well, do you want to do a review (or reassign it internally)?