What is the recommended way to gracefully shutdown?

[coryan]

Is there a recommended way to terminate short lived programs? I am thinking of examples, tests, or batch processes that may have completed their work but want to give OpenCensus time to complete its work before shutting down.

[g-easy]

Currently we sleep to let the stats aggregation and exporting happen, which isn't ideal.

[coryan]

That is what I thought. No rush, but any plans to have something better?

[g-easy]

I've been thinking about it but I don't have a good proposal yet.

Related discussions:

• Stats: flush data to exporters opencensus-specs#152 for flushing stats
• Tracing: Consider adding a flush API. opencensus-specs#126 for flushing traces

[Dig-Doug]

Have there been any progress on adding a flush capability? I ran into this problem today and had to add a wait to the end of my program (which is short lived).

[g-easy]

I'm afraid not. I'm very limited in how much time I can spend on OpenCensus. Check out https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/

[Dig-Doug]

No problem, it looks like this is the relevant feature on the opentelemetry side. I look forward to migrating once everything is ready :)