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Export Metrics with OTLP Mock in Python

Simulates system metric collection and exports them as an OTLP-like JSON payload using only Python's standard library.

otlp metrics observability
Python 
from dataclasses import dataclass, asdict
import json
import random
import time


@dataclass
class Metric:
    name: str
    value: float
    timestamp: int
    unit: str = "1"


def collect_system_metrics() -> list[Metric]:
    """Mock metric collection for OTLP export simulation."""
    now = int(time.time())
    re…
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