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Author: antonjim-te

exporter/exporterhelper/README.md

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ The following configuration options can be modified:
       [the batch processor](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/tree/main/processor/batchprocessor)
       is used, the metric `batch_send_size` can be used for estimation)
 - `timeout` (default = 5s): Time to wait per individual attempt to send data to a backend
-- `sampled_logger`: Samples logging messages, which caps the CPU and I/O load of logging while keeping a representative subset of your logs.
+- `sampled_logger`: Enables/disables sampling of logging messages, which caps the CPU and I/O load of logging while keeping a representative subset of your logs.
   - `enabled` (default = true)
 
 The `initial_interval`, `max_interval`, `max_elapsed_time`, and `timeout` options accept 

exporter/exporterhelper/common.go

@@ -27,11 +27,11 @@ func NewDefaultTimeoutSettings() TimeoutSettings {
 	}
 }
 
-// SampledLoggerSettings samples logging messages, which caps the CPU and I/O load of logging while keeping a
+// SampledLoggerSettings Configure the logger sampler, which caps the CPU and I/O load of logging while keeping a
 // representative subset of your logs.
 // Its purpose is to balance between the need for comprehensive logging and the potential performance impact of logging too much data.
 type SampledLoggerSettings struct {
-	// Enable the sampledLogger
+	// Enable/disable the sampledLogger
 	Enabled bool `mapstructure:"enabled"`
 }
 

exporter/exporterhelper/queued_retry.go

@@ -267,15 +267,11 @@ func NewDefaultRetrySettings() RetrySettings {
 }
 
 func createSampledLogger(logger *zap.Logger, lCfg SampledLoggerSettings) *zap.Logger {
-	if logger.Core().Enabled(zapcore.DebugLevel) {
+	if !lCfg.Enabled || logger.Core().Enabled(zapcore.DebugLevel) {
 		// Debugging is enabled. Don't do any sampling.
 		return logger
 	}
 
-	if !lCfg.Enabled {
-		return logger
-	}
-
 	// Create a logger that samples all messages to 1 per 10 seconds initially,
 	// and 1/100 of messages after that.
 	opts := zap.WrapCore(func(core zapcore.Core) zapcore.Core {

exporter/otlphttpexporter/README.md

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ The following settings can be optionally configured:
 - `timeout` (default = 30s): HTTP request time limit. For details see https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#Client
 - `read_buffer_size` (default = 0): ReadBufferSize for HTTP client.
 - `write_buffer_size` (default = 512 * 1024): WriteBufferSize for HTTP client.
-- `sampled_logger`: Samples logging messages, which caps the CPU and I/O load of logging while keeping a representative subset of your logs.
+- `sampled_logger`: Enables/disables sampling of logging messages, which caps the CPU and I/O load of logging while keeping a representative subset of your logs.
     - `enabled` (default = true)
 
 Example: