Leighton Chen

@Chetas1 Do you still have an issue with this? If not, this issue will be closed.

Would you happen to be using the [metrics](https://github.com/census-instrumentation/opencensus-python/blob/master/contrib/opencensus-ext-azure/examples/metrics/simple.py#L42) exporter?

Opencensus-ext-azure collects network related metrics automatically in the background, which is why in your stack track you see metric signals being sent out. Usually the metrics exporter running in the...

@mosneji It is possible that the background metrics exporter thread is hanging due to trying to flush on exit. This will be fixed in the next release so this specific...

@mosneji Will be looking to release by the end of this month.

@nosterlu Just to clarify, in version `1.1.4` you are seeing that error message from time to time but not `1.1.3`?

Thanks for the investigation. Yes 1.1.4 should have bumped the dependency requirement to `opencensus >= 0.9.0`. I will be doing this as part of next release.

@mosneji Could you try upgrading to `opencensus-ext-azure` 1.1.6?

@RenanAlonkin Are you still wanting [#817] to be merged?

Specifying the storage path is the recommended approach for this issue. Closing.