[exporter/splunkhec] 403 errors are retried

[friedrichg]

Component(s)

exporter/splunkhec

What happened?

Description

Steps to Reproduce

Use a wrong hec token

Expected Result

It should not retry

Actual Result

The message says is retrying

Collector version

v.117.0

Environment information

Environment

OS: Alpine

OpenTelemetry Collector configuration

exporters:
  debug:
    verbosity: normal
  splunk_hec:
    token: ${env:SPLUNK_HEC_TOKEN}
    endpoint: "https://splunkurl"
    index: "some"
    source: "http:test3"
receivers:
  filelog:
    include:
    -  /var/log/my.log
processors:
  batch: {}
service:
  pipelines:
    logs:
      receivers:
      - filelog
      exporters:
      - debug
      - splunk_hec

Log output

Mar 28 14:39:44 c7deed39eaa7 otel-collector[1154]: 2025-03-28T14:39:44.484Z        info        internal/retry_sender.go:126        Exporting failed. Will retry the request after interval.        {"kind": "exporter", "data_type": "logs", "name": "splunk_hec", "error": "HTTP 403 \"Forbidden\"", "interval": "35.47795968s"}

Additional context

Maybe the worker should return with permanent error when getting 4xx errors

Like it does here

opentelemetry-collector-contrib/exporter/splunkhecexporter/hec_worker.go

Line 37 in 8e54ec1

return consumererror.NewPermanent(err)

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Pinging code owners:

• exporter/splunkhec: @atoulme @dmitryax

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[atoulme]

Please feel free to submit a PR.

[l00py]

@atoulme -- I'll be working on it with @friedrichg