Error on exporting Metrics to Google Cloud

[radioactive11]

Component(s)

exporter/googlecloud

What happened?

Description

There seems to be a problem with the metric exporter. On following the guide for exporting metrics to Google Cloud, I was facing the following error (attached in log output).

Steps to Reproduce

Expected Result

Actual Result

Collector version

0.75.0

Environment information

Environment

GKE

OpenTelemetry Collector configuration

apiVersion: opentelemetry.io/v1alpha1
kind: OpenTelemetryCollector
metadata:
  name: otel
spec:
  image: otel/opentelemetry-collector-contrib:latest
  config: |
    receivers:
      otlp:
        protocols:
          grpc:
          http:
    processors:
    exporters:
      googlecloud:
        metric:
          create_service_timeseries: true
          use_insecure: true
          prefix: "eevee"
      logging:
        loglevel: debug
    service:
      pipelines:
        traces:
          receivers: [otlp]
          processors: []
          exporters: [googlecloud]
        metrics:
          receivers: [otlp]
          processors: []
          exporters: [googlecloud]

Log output

│ 2023-04-17T09:42:48.503Z    info    service/telemetry.go:90    Setting up own telemetry...                                                                                                                                                                                   │
│ 2023-04-17T09:42:48.503Z    info    service/telemetry.go:116    Serving Prometheus metrics    {"address": ":8888", "level": "Basic"}                                                                                                                                         │
│ Error: failed to build pipelines: failed to create "googlecloud" exporter for data type "metrics": no project set in config, or found with application default credentials                                                                                                   │
│ 2023/04/17 09:42:48 collector server run finished with error: failed to build pipelines: failed to create "googlecloud" exporter for data type "metrics": no project set in config, or found with application default credentials

Additional context

No response

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[damemi]

Duplicate of GoogleCloudPlatform/opentelemetry-operator-sample#34, can we please close this issue and continue discussion in the GCP repo?

[radioactive11]

Sure!
Closing this and continuing on GoogleCloudPlatform/opentelemetry-operator-sample#34