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limit response body size for OTLP HTTP exporters - #8108

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limit response body size for OTLP HTTP exporters#8108
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✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 81.8%. Comparing base (35214b6) to head (7e2b34a).
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exporters/otlp/otlplog/otlploghttp/client.go 85.7% <100.0%> (+2.2%) ⬆️
exporters/otlp/otlpmetric/otlpmetrichttp/client.go 83.5% <100.0%> (+1.8%) ⬆️
exporters/otlp/otlptrace/otlptracehttp/client.go 78.8% <100.0%> (+1.6%) ⬆️

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ptal done.

this matches the issue i reported: response-body reads for diagnostics are now bounded instead of copied unbounded into memory. please just ensure tests cover success + error paths, including chunked and gzip responses, across trace/metric/log exporters.

from my side, this looks like the right fix.

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@1seal,

ptal done.

Thanks!

including chunked and gzip responses

I checked it already. The http.Client automatically handles gzip decompression as well as handles chunked transfer encoding transparently.

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pellared merged commit 5e363de into open-telemetry:main Apr 1, 2026
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@pellared pellared added this to the v1.43.0 milestone Apr 1, 2026
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Release issue:
#8127

## Added

- Add `IsRandom` and `WithRandom` on `TraceFlags`, and `IsRandom` on
`SpanContext` in `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace`
for [W3C Trace Context Level 2 Random Trace ID
Flag](https://www.w3.org/TR/trace-context-2/#random-trace-id-flag)
support. (#8012)
- Add service detection with `WithService` in
`go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/resource`. (#7642)
- Add `DefaultWithContext` and `EnvironmentWithContext` in
`go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/resource` to support plumbing
`context.Context` through default and environment detectors. (#8051)
- Support attributes with empty value (`attribute.EMPTY`) in
`go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace/otlptracegrpc`.
(#8038)
- Support attributes with empty value (`attribute.EMPTY`) in
`go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlpmetric/otlpmetricgrpc`.
(#8038)
- Support attributes with empty value (`attribute.EMPTY`) in
`go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlplog/otlploggrpc`. (#8038)
- Support attributes with empty value (`attribute.EMPTY`) in
`go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace/otlptracehttp`.
(#8038)
- Support attributes with empty value (`attribute.EMPTY`) in
`go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlpmetric/otlpmetrichttp`.
(#8038)
- Support attributes with empty value (`attribute.EMPTY`) in
`go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlplog/otlploghttp`. (#8038)
- Support attributes with empty value (`attribute.EMPTY`) in
`go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric/metricdata/metricdatatest`. (#8038)
- Add support for per-series start time tracking for cumulative metrics
in `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric`.
  Set `OTEL_GO_X_PER_SERIES_START_TIMESTAMPS=true` to enable. (#8060)
- Add `WithCardinalityLimitSelector` for metric reader for configuring
cardinality limits specific to the instrument kind. (#7855)

## Changed

- Introduce the `EMPTY` Type in `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/attribute` to
reflect that an empty value is now a valid value, with `INVALID`
remaining as a deprecated alias of `EMPTY`. (#8038)
- Refactor slice handling in `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/attribute` to
optimize short slice values with fixed-size fast paths. (#8039)
- Improve performance of span metric recording in
`go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/trace` by returning early if
self-observability is not enabled. (#8067)
- Improve formatting of metric data diffs in
`go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric/metricdata/metricdatatest`. (#8073)

## Deprecated

- Deprecate `INVALID` in `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/attribute`. Use
`EMPTY` instead. (#8038)

## Fixed

- Return spec-compliant `TraceIdRatioBased` description. This is a
breaking behavioral change, but it is necessary to
make the implementation
[spec-compliant](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otel/trace/sdk/#traceidratiobased).
(#8027)
- Fix a race condition in `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric` where
the lastvalue aggregation could collect the value 0 even when no
zero-value measurements were recorded. (#8056)
- Limit HTTP response body to 4 MiB in
`go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace/otlptracehttp` to
mitigate excessive memory usage caused by a misconfigured or malicious
server.
Responses exceeding the limit are treated as non-retryable errors.
(#8108)
- Limit HTTP response body to 4 MiB in
`go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlpmetric/otlpmetrichttp` to
mitigate excessive memory usage caused by a misconfigured or malicious
server.
Responses exceeding the limit are treated as non-retryable errors.
(#8108)
- Limit HTTP response body to 4 MiB in
`go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlplog/otlploghttp` to
mitigate excessive memory usage caused by a misconfigured or malicious
server.
Responses exceeding the limit are treated as non-retryable errors.
(#8108)
- `WithHostID` detector in `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/resource` to
use full path for `kenv` command on BSD. (#8113)
- Fix missing `request.GetBody` in
`go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlplog/otlploghttp` to
correctly handle HTTP2 GOAWAY frame. (#8096)

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Co-authored-by: Tyler Yahn <MrAlias@users.noreply.github.com>
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