How do I prevent opentelemetry client from connecting to a collector?

[daniel-b2c2]

I have an application which writes metrics to opentelemetry.

I need this to be a no-op in certain environments where the collector is not reachable, and thus we won't collect metrics.

Jan 20, 2025 11:25:09 AM io.opentelemetry.sdk.internal.ThrottlingLogger doLog
SEVERE: Failed to export metrics. The request could not be executed. Error message: [REDACTED]: nodename nor servname provided, or not known
java.net.UnknownHostException: [REDACTED]: nodename nor servname provided, or not known

The above error keeps appearing, I have tried the following:

-DopenTelemetryEnabled=false
-Dotel.sdk.disabled=true
-Dotel.traces.exporter=none
-Dotel.exporter.otlp.metrics.enabled=false

None of these seem to work.