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Experiment
I built a small Python/OpenTelemetry experiment for workers that retry transient failures. The useful distinction is between an attempt failing and the whole job failing: a successful second attempt should not turn the final operation into an error merely because its first child span failed.
The implementation creates one worker.execute parent and one worker.attempt child per call. In the fail-once-then-succeed case, the first child is ERROR, both children have the correct parent/trace IDs, and the ended parent retains UNSET. A separate worker.calls counter records application success; UNSET by itself is not a success assertion. worker.attempts records two attempts while worker.calls records one completed operation. Keep those denominators separate when measuring recovery or completion rates.
Reproduction: https://github.com/a670493528/otel-python-writing-samples/tree/ff9966c — install the pinned requirements into an isolated environment and run python -m unittest -v from the repository directory. I reran all six tests locally today with OpenTelemetry SDK 1.44.0. They also cover three exhausted attempts, non-retryable ValueError, invalid attempt limits, and bounded metric attributes. The exporters are in-memory; no paid API or live backend is needed.
A practical limit: trace nesting does not make writes safe to repeat. This sample retries only its explicitly defined TransientFailure and assumes the callable can be retried. It does not provide HTTP backoff, crash recovery, or a production idempotency store. A real submission worker should reconcile an uncertain write using its durable request identity before issuing another write. Likewise, passing these tests does not prove collector delivery or dashboard queries.
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