Fix: Reinitialize gRPC channel on UNAVAILABLE error by dheeraj-vanamala · Pull Request #4825

Fix: Reinitialize gRPC channel on UNAVAILABLE error by dheeraj-vanamala · Pull Request #4825 · open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python

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- Remove aggressive gRPC keepalive and retry settings to rely on defaults.
- Fix compression precedence logic to correctly handle NoCompression (0).
- Refactor channel initialization to be stateless (remove _channel_reconnection_enabled).- Update documentation to refer to 'OTLP-compatible receiver'

dheeraj-vanamala changed the title ~~Fix: Reinitialize gRPC channel on UNAVAILABLE error (Fixes #4517)~~ Fix: Reinitialize gRPC channel on UNAVAILABLE error (Fixes #4517) (Fixes #4529)

Dec 9, 2025

xrmx changed the title ~~Fix: Reinitialize gRPC channel on UNAVAILABLE error (Fixes #4517) (Fixes #4529)~~ Fix: Reinitialize gRPC channel on UNAVAILABLE error

Jan 22, 2026

xrmx and others added 3 commits

January 22, 2026 10:41

xrmx approved these changes Jan 27, 2026

JWinermaSplunk pushed a commit to JWinermaSplunk/opentelemetry-python that referenced this pull request

Feb 17, 2026

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* Fix: Reinitialize gRPC channel on UNAVAILABLE error (Fixes open-telemetry#4517)

* fix: address PR review comments for gRPC reconnection

* refactor(exporter): simplify reconnection logic and address review comments
- Remove aggressive gRPC keepalive and retry settings to rely on defaults.
- Fix compression precedence logic to correctly handle NoCompression (0).
- Refactor channel initialization to be stateless (remove _channel_reconnection_enabled).- Update documentation to refer to 'OTLP-compatible receiver'

* fix: remove extra blank line in docstring

* fix(exporter): address typecheck errors and add changelog entry

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Co-authored-by: Riccardo Magliocchetti <riccardo.magliocchetti@gmail.com>