Vishwesh Bankwar

@cartermp Users have an option to stay on the last released [beta](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/releases/tag/1.6.0-beta.3) version which defaults to older conventions.

> > just hold off on releasing for a moment. > > How would that help anyone? The 1st stable release of instrumentations are expected in under 2 weeks, so...

I support

> Is there some way to modify the timeout on the internal OTel gRPC calls? You can increase the timeout period by setting [TimeoutMilliseconds](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/blob/46265e3379ed71ef01666af3e13e6f3803510d61/src/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol/OtlpExporterOptions.cs#L108) > If a batch is lost...

> > Is there some way to modify the timeout on the internal OTel gRPC calls? > > You can increase the timeout period by setting [TimeoutMilliseconds](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/blob/46265e3379ed71ef01666af3e13e6f3803510d61/src/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol/OtlpExporterOptions.cs#L108) > > Thanks!...

@ladenedge - Just to confirm, you don't have [retries](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/tree/46265e3379ed71ef01666af3e13e6f3803510d61/src/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol#:~:text=OTEL_DOTNET_EXPERIMENTAL_OTLP_RETRY,in%201.8.0.) enabled, correct? it's odd that once the server hits DeadlineExceeded, it is not able to recover from that and continues to...

@paulomorgado - Thank you for your time, appreciate the help. As discussed https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/pull/5727#discussion_r1661310935, I am closing this PR as the implementation is soon going to change.

> > This could be a breaking change, even though the algorithm in TraceIdRatioSampler was never fixed and not spec-ed out either. Do you know if the spec issue for...

> > > This could be a breaking change, even though the algorithm in TraceIdRatioSampler was never fixed and not spec-ed out either. Do you know if the spec issue...

@stevejgordon > Do you know why the gRPC client doesn't use the HttpClientFactory? Would you be open to a PR from me to add that? I am currently working on...