John Watson

I've been working on some OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation for gradle builds, and thought this would be a great showcase of "eating our own dogfood" if we had a way to do...

B3 Propagator can't properly handle missing `X-B3-Sampled` header

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If the `X-B3-Sampled` header is missing, the propagator is considering this as "not sampled" when creating the resulting TraceFlags. This will cause Samplers to then consider the parent as "not...

Verify OT shim context propagation is functioning properly.

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With all the changes to the Context API, we should verify that the OT shim is still propagating context properly.

Metrics SDK: define standard circuit breakers for uncollected, infinite cardinality recordings

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It is possible (perhaps even likely) that instrumentation will generate metrics with cardinality explosions. There may be backends that can handle this, so it's not necessarily an error in the...

Define span modelling conventions for HTTP client spans

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For consistency across languages and HTTP client libraries, we should provide suggested conventions for modeling details of HTTP client calls. Here is a short list of items to include in...

Support standard aws credentials chain in ~/.aws

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One of the very common ways to authenticate with AWS is to use the aws command line tools to set up the contents of ~/.aws to have auth information in...

Support for overrideCompatibilityChangeParameters

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I see this is in the maven plugin, and would love it for the gradle version. In particular, I would very much like to be able to say that `METHOD_NEW_DEFAULT`...

Add the ability to send a batch of metric batches

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The backend API supports sending multiple batches in one payload. We should support that in the SDK. (Migrate to Jira)

Update the micrometer documentation to point more forcefully at our exporter

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This document needs to be re-written. https://github.com/micrometer-metrics/micrometer-docs/blob/fc4088087f10961107a832a6aabe37801e4ffc80/src/docs/implementations/new-relic.adoc At the very least, we should PR a change to move the "Note" front and center and point users at our officially supported...