Repository: census-ecosystem/opencensus-go-exporter-stackdriver
Pull request #287 (2021-05-05 20:42:43)

Add staggering between identical start and end times
This applies the same fix that has been applied to the opentelemetry exporters to the opencensus exporter: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/opentelemetry-operations-go/blob/main/exporter/metric/metric.go#L618.

Related to https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/pull/3047#issuecomment-829338999


Patch:
diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 7da9441..37c50a3 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 language: go
 
 go:
-  - 1.12.x
+  - 1.15.x
 
 go_import_path: contrib.go.opencensus.io/exporter/stackdriver
 
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index cb1c1a3..40e806c 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 module contrib.go.opencensus.io/exporter/stackdriver
 
-go 1.12
+go 1.15
 
 require (
 	cloud.google.com/go v0.75.0
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
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--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
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diff --git a/stats.go b/stats.go
index 1fd7d99..5e69e7b 100644
--- a/stats.go
+++ b/stats.go
@@ -452,19 +452,29 @@ func newPoint(v *view.View, row *view.Row, start, end time.Time) *monitoringpb.P
 	}
 }
 
+func toValidTimeIntervalpb(start, end time.Time) *monitoringpb.TimeInterval {
+	// The end time of a new interval must be at least a millisecond after the end time of the
+	// previous interval, for all non-gauge types.
+	// https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/api/ref_v3/rpc/google.monitoring.v3#timeinterval
+	if end.Sub(start).Milliseconds() <= 1 {
+		end = start.Add(time.Millisecond)
+	}
+	return &monitoringpb.TimeInterval{
+		StartTime: &timestamp.Timestamp{
+			Seconds: start.Unix(),
+			Nanos:   int32(start.Nanosecond()),
+		},
+		EndTime: &timestamp.Timestamp{
+			Seconds: end.Unix(),
+			Nanos:   int32(end.Nanosecond()),
+		},
+	}
+}
+
 func newCumulativePoint(v *view.View, row *view.Row, start, end time.Time) *monitoringpb.Point {
 	return &monitoringpb.Point{
-		Interval: &monitoringpb.TimeInterval{
-			StartTime: &timestamp.Timestamp{
-				Seconds: start.Unix(),
-				Nanos:   int32(start.Nanosecond()),
-			},
-			EndTime: &timestamp.Timestamp{
-				Seconds: end.Unix(),
-				Nanos:   int32(end.Nanosecond()),
-			},
-		},
-		Value: newTypedValue(v, row),
+		Interval: toValidTimeIntervalpb(start, end),
+		Value:    newTypedValue(v, row),
 	}
 }
 


Test patch:
diff --git a/stats_test.go b/stats_test.go
index 70544f0..6681962 100644
--- a/stats_test.go
+++ b/stats_test.go
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import (
 	monitoring "cloud.google.com/go/monitoring/apiv3/v2"
 	"contrib.go.opencensus.io/exporter/stackdriver/monitoredresource"
 
+	"github.com/golang/protobuf/ptypes"
 	"github.com/golang/protobuf/ptypes/timestamp"
 	"github.com/google/go-cmp/cmp"
 	"go.opencensus.io/stats"
@@ -494,6 +495,26 @@ func TestExporter_makeReq(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestTimeIntervalStaggering(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Now()
+
+	interval := toValidTimeIntervalpb(now, now)
+
+	start, err := ptypes.Timestamp(interval.StartTime)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("unable to convert start time from PB: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	end, err := ptypes.Timestamp(interval.EndTime)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("unable to convert end time to PB: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	if end.Before(start.Add(time.Millisecond)) {
+		t.Fatalf("expected end=%v to be at least %v after start=%v, but it wasn't", end, time.Millisecond, start)
+	}
+}
+
 func TestExporter_makeReq_batching(t *testing.T) {
 	m := stats.Float64("test-measure/makeReq_batching", "measure desc", "unit")