Increment version for monitor releases (#42903)

* Increment package version after release of azure-monitor-opentelemetry

* Fix mypy errors

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Co-authored-by: Radhika Gupta <[email protected]>

Author: azure-sdk

sdk/monitor/azure-monitor-opentelemetry/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,15 @@
 # Release History
 
+## 1.8.1 (Unreleased)
+
+### Features Added
+
+### Breaking Changes
+
+### Bugs Fixed
+
+### Other Changes
+
 ## 1.8.0 (2025-09-08)
 
 ### Features Added

sdk/monitor/azure-monitor-opentelemetry/azure/monitor/opentelemetry/_version.py

@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@
 # license information.
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-VERSION = "1.8.0"
+VERSION = "1.8.1"

sdk/monitor/azure-monitor-opentelemetry/samples/metrics/live_metrics.py

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 trace and exception telemetry to demonstrate the capabilities and collection set of live metrics.
 """
 import logging
-import requests
+import requests # type: ignore[import-untyped]
 import time
 
 from azure.monitor.opentelemetry import configure_azure_monitor

sdk/monitor/azure-monitor-opentelemetry/samples/tracing/filter_spans.py

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # license information.
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-import requests
+import requests # type: ignore[import-untyped]
 from azure.monitor.opentelemetry import configure_azure_monitor
 from opentelemetry.sdk.trace import SpanProcessor
 from opentelemetry.trace import get_tracer, SpanContext, SpanKind, TraceFlags

sdk/monitor/azure-monitor-opentelemetry/samples/tracing/http_requests.py

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------
 import logging
 
-import requests
+import requests # type: ignore[import-untyped]
 from azure.monitor.opentelemetry import configure_azure_monitor
 from opentelemetry import trace