SDK: post-request vs immediate export

[open-telemetry]

SDK: post-request vs immediate export

[benedictfischer09]

I would think the agent should operate in its own thread or process and have no knowledge of the thread that generated the span, whether that is a http request or some other process like a background job. As spans are placed onto the buffer in the agent thread it should have some strategy for flushing the buffer, probably a combination of hitting a max number of messages or a max time delay.

[fbogsany]

The spec is clear on non blocking requirements around span export. The supporting mechanism will be BatchSampledSpanProcessor, for exporters that want to export batches asynchronously.