feat: Add ability to selectively enable exporting of SDK internal metrics with the OTEL_PYTHON_SDK_INTERNAL_METRICS_ENABLED environment variable#5151
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Looks great, thanks @herin049.
It would be good to replace existing env var parsing with the new parse_boolean_environment_variable helper you've added in a follow-up PR.
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Description
Adds ability to selectively enable/disable exporting of SDK internal metric collection with the introduction of the
OTEL_PYTHON_SDK_METRIC_ENABLEDenvironment variable.Motivation
While the "Stable by Default" OTEP has not been finalized yet, it is still preferrable to not emit unstable metric by default.
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