Count otel.sdk.processor.{span,log}.processed at exporter-submit time - #5472
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LGTM. Let's wait until the spec is merged before merging this.
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Aligns Python with the processor
processedboundary clarified in open-telemetry/semantic-conventions#3902.The
otel.sdk.processor.span.processed/otel.sdk.processor.log.processedcounters are currently incremented afterexporter.export()returns, and an exporter failure is stamped onto this metric aserror.type(the raised exception's class name). That conflates exporter outcome with processor outcome and produces unboundederror.typecardinality.This aligns Python with the boundary clarified in semantic-conventions#3902: the processor counts a record as processed when it submits the batch to the exporter, regardless of the export result.
error.typeon this metric is reserved for the processor's own drop reasons (queue_full,already_shutdown); exporter success/failure is reported separately by theotel.sdk.exporter.*metrics.Changes:
finish_items(count)no longer takes an error and always records success.