Setting OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER=none does not stop the trace exporter

[kwmlodozeniec]

In my environment I set OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER to none during local development but I still get repeated exceptions in the logs as traces are being exported. Any ideas how to disable the export completely?

My stack uses FastAPI and Requests instrumentation and the exception I'm getting is

ConnectionError(e, request=request)\nrequests.exceptions.ConnectionError: HTTPConnectionPool(host='localhost', port=4318): Max retries exceeded with url: /v1/traces

[mateuszrzeszutek]

Hey @kwmlodozeniec ,
You should probably open this discussion in https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib - FastAPI and Requests are not Java libs

[kwmlodozeniec]

sorry, got the repos confused, too many tabs open.

[mateuszrzeszutek]

No prob!