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Document that Prometheus exporter does not work with multiprocessing #4711

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Document multiprocessing environments are not supported
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Rephrase as limitation by design
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Add documentation in source code README as well
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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions docs/exporter/prometheus/prometheus.rst
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Expand Up @@ -47,6 +47,11 @@ The following environment variables are supported:
* ``OTEL_EXPORTER_PROMETHEUS_HOST`` (default: "localhost"): The host to bind to
* ``OTEL_EXPORTER_PROMETHEUS_PORT`` (default: 9464): The port to bind to

Limitations
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* No multiprocessing support: The Prometheus exporter is not designed to operate in multiprocessing environments.

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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-prometheus/README.rst
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Expand Up @@ -15,6 +15,11 @@ Installation

pip install opentelemetry-exporter-prometheus

Limitations
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* No multiprocessing support: The Prometheus exporter is not designed to operate in multiprocessing environments.

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