Metrics fail to be exported: One or more TimeSeries could not be written: [...] Distribution |explicit_buckets.bounds| does not have at least one entry

[nioncode]

Component(s)

exporter/googlecloud

What happened?

Description

We are using auto instrumentation via the opentelemetry-javaagent (v1.33.4) and the auto exporter (exporter-auto-0.31.0-alpha-shaded). We instrument our app with the following command:

ENTRYPOINT ["java", \
  "-javaagent:opentelemetry-javaagent.jar", \
  "-Dotel.javaagent.extensions=exporter-auto-0.31.0-alpha-shaded.jar", \
  "-Dotel.traces.exporter=google_cloud_trace", \
  "-Dotel.metrics.exporter=google_cloud_monitoring", \
  "-Dotel.logs.exporter=none", \
  "-Dotel.service.name=my-service", \
  "-Dotel.javaagent.logging=application", \
  "-Dorg.jboss.logging.provider=slf4j", \
  "-Dlogback.configurationFile=/app/logback.xml",\
  "-cp", \
  "app.jar", \
  "com.example.app.Main" \
]

When deploying our app to GCP, it seems to collect metrics correctly (at least some statistics show up for http.server.duration in Google Cloud Monitoring), but every minute our app prints a warning that it failed to write some TimeSeries (see below for the exact stack trace).

How can we find out which metric could not be written (since at least the http.server.duration seems to work fine) and/or how can we avoid the warning?

Steps to Reproduce

Create a java app, instrument it with the agent + auto exporter and deploy it to GCP. Wait a couple of minutes until the app has started and check its logs.

Expected Result

There should be no warnings.

Actual Result

We get warnings in the logs that some TimeSeries cannot be exported:

Exporter threw an Exception
shadow.com.google.api.gax.rpc.InvalidArgumentException: shadow.io.grpc.StatusRuntimeException: INVALID_ARGUMENT: One or more TimeSeries could not be written: Field timeSeries[7].points[0].distributionValue had an invalid value: Distribution |explicit_buckets.bounds| does not have at least one entry.
    at shadow.com.google.api.gax.rpc.ApiExceptionFactory.createException(ApiExceptionFactory.java:92)
    at shadow.com.google.api.gax.grpc.GrpcApiExceptionFactory.create(GrpcApiExceptionFactory.java:98)
    at shadow.com.google.api.gax.grpc.GrpcApiExceptionFactory.create(GrpcApiExceptionFactory.java:66)
    at shadow.com.google.api.gax.grpc.GrpcExceptionCallable$ExceptionTransformingFuture.onFailure(GrpcExceptionCallable.java:97)
    at shadow.com.google.api.core.ApiFutures$1.onFailure(ApiFutures.java:84)
    at shadow.com.google.common.util.concurrent.Futures$CallbackListener.run(Futures.java:1127)
    at shadow.com.google.common.util.concurrent.DirectExecutor.execute(DirectExecutor.java:31)
    at shadow.com.google.common.util.concurrent.AbstractFuture.executeListener(AbstractFuture.java:1286)
    at shadow.com.google.common.util.concurrent.AbstractFuture.complete(AbstractFuture.java:1055)
    at shadow.com.google.common.util.concurrent.AbstractFuture.setException(AbstractFuture.java:807)
    at shadow.io.grpc.stub.ClientCalls$GrpcFuture.setException(ClientCalls.java:568)
    at shadow.io.grpc.stub.ClientCalls$UnaryStreamToFuture.onClose(ClientCalls.java:538)
    at shadow.io.grpc.PartialForwardingClientCallListener.onClose(PartialForwardingClientCallListener.java:39)
    at shadow.io.grpc.ForwardingClientCallListener.onClose(ForwardingClientCallListener.java:23)
    at shadow.io.grpc.ForwardingClientCallListener$SimpleForwardingClientCallListener.onClose(ForwardingClientCallListener.java:40)
    at shadow.com.google.api.gax.grpc.ChannelPool$ReleasingClientCall$1.onClose(ChannelPool.java:570)
    at shadow.io.grpc.internal.ClientCallImpl.closeObserver(ClientCallImpl.java:574)
    at shadow.io.grpc.internal.ClientCallImpl.access$300(ClientCallImpl.java:72)
    at shadow.io.grpc.internal.ClientCallImpl$ClientStreamListenerImpl$1StreamClosed.runInternal(ClientCallImpl.java:742)
    at shadow.io.grpc.internal.ClientCallImpl$ClientStreamListenerImpl$1StreamClosed.runInContext(ClientCallImpl.java:723)
    at shadow.io.grpc.internal.ContextRunnable.run(ContextRunnable.java:37)
    at shadow.io.grpc.internal.SerializingExecutor.run(SerializingExecutor.java:133)
    at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1136)
    at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:635)
    at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:840)
caused by: shadow.io.grpc.StatusRuntimeException: INVALID_ARGUMENT: One or more TimeSeries could not be written: Field timeSeries[7].points[0].distributionValue had an invalid value: Distribution |explicit_buckets.bounds| does not have at least one entry.
    at shadow.io.grpc.Status.asRuntimeException(Status.java:537)
    ... 14 common frames elided"

Collector version

none, we directly export to GCP

Environment information

Environment

JDK: Temurin 17
OS: Ubuntu 24.04
Undertow 2.3.12

OpenTelemetry Collector configuration

No response

Log output

No response

Additional context

No response

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[punya]

I created an issue in https://github.com/googlecloudplatform/opentelemetry-operations-java, because this problem doesn't seem related to the OTel collector.