opentelemetry-go/sdk/metric/exporter.go

// Copyright The OpenTelemetry Authors
// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

package metric // import "go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric"

import (
	"context"
	"errors"

	"go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric/metricdata"
)

// ErrExporterShutdown is returned if Export or Shutdown are called after an
// Exporter has been Shutdown.
var ErrExporterShutdown = errors.New("exporter is shutdown")

// Exporter handles the delivery of metric data to external receivers. This is
// the final component in the metric push pipeline.
type Exporter interface {
	// Temporality returns the Temporality to use for an instrument kind.
	//
	// This method needs to be concurrent safe with itself and all the other
	// Exporter methods.
	Temporality(InstrumentKind) metricdata.Temporality
	// DO NOT CHANGE: any modification will not be backwards compatible and
	// must never be done outside of a new major release.

	// Aggregation returns the Aggregation to use for an instrument kind.
	//
	// This method needs to be concurrent safe with itself and all the other
	// Exporter methods.
	Aggregation(InstrumentKind) Aggregation
	// DO NOT CHANGE: any modification will not be backwards compatible and
	// must never be done outside of a new major release.

	// Export serializes and transmits metric data to a receiver.
	//
	// This is called synchronously, there is no concurrency safety
	// requirement. Because of this, it is critical that all timeouts and
	// cancellations of the passed context be honored.
	//
	// All retry logic must be contained in this function. The SDK does not
	// implement any retry logic. All errors returned by this function are
	// considered unrecoverable and will be reported to a configured error
	// Handler.
	//
	// The passed ResourceMetrics may be reused when the call completes. If an
	// exporter needs to hold this data after it returns, it needs to make a
	// copy.
	Export(context.Context, *metricdata.ResourceMetrics) error
	// DO NOT CHANGE: any modification will not be backwards compatible and
	// must never be done outside of a new major release.

	// ForceFlush flushes any metric data held by an exporter.
	//
	// The deadline or cancellation of the passed context must be honored. An
	// appropriate error should be returned in these situations.
	//
	// This method needs to be concurrent safe.
	ForceFlush(context.Context) error
	// DO NOT CHANGE: any modification will not be backwards compatible and
	// must never be done outside of a new major release.

	// Shutdown flushes all metric data held by an exporter and releases any
	// held computational resources.
	//
	// The deadline or cancellation of the passed context must be honored. An
	// appropriate error should be returned in these situations.
	//
	// After Shutdown is called, calls to Export will perform no operation and
	// instead will return an error indicating the shutdown state.
	//
	// This method needs to be concurrent safe.
	Shutdown(context.Context) error
	// DO NOT CHANGE: any modification will not be backwards compatible and
	// must never be done outside of a new major release.
}