rpc error: code = InvalidArgument desc = One or more TimeSeries could not be written

[bhanupratapm02]

Component(s)

receiver/prometheus, exporter/googlemanagedprometheus

Describe the issue you're reporting

We are seeing below error in otelcol-contrib.service

otelcol-contrib[74700]: 2025-03-05T14:36:43.953-0500 error internal/queue_sender.go:128 Exporting failed. Dropping data. {"otelcol.component.id": "googlemanagedprometheus", "otelcol.component.kind": "Exporter", "otelcol.signal": "metrics", "error": "rpc error: code = InvalidArgument desc = One or more TimeSeries could not be written: timeSeries[94]: Field timeSeries[94].points[0].distributionValue had an invalid value: Distribution bucket_counts(1) has a negative count.\nerror details: name = Unknown desc = total_point_count:200 success_point_count:199 errors:{status:{code:3} point_count:1}", "dropped_items": 1666}
Mar 05 14:36:43 lnak01.homedepot.com otelcol-contrib[74700]: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/exporter/exporterhelper/internal.NewQueueSender.func3
Mar 05 14:36:43 lnak01.homedepot.com otelcol-contrib[74700]: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/exporter@v0.120.0/exporterhelper/internal/queue_sender.go:128
Mar 05 14:36:43 lnak01.homedepot.com otelcol-contrib[74700]: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/exporter/exporterhelper/internal/batcher.(*disabledBatcher[...]).Consume
Mar 05 14:36:43 lnak01.homedepot.com otelcol-contrib[74700]: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/exporter@v0.120.0/exporterhelper/internal/batcher/disabled_batcher.go:23
Mar 05 14:36:43 lnak01.homedepot.com otelcol-contrib[74700]: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/exporter/exporterqueue.(*asyncQueue[...]).Start.func1
Mar 05 14:36:43 lnak01.homedepot.com otelcol-contrib[74700]: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/exporter@v0.120.0/exporterqueue/async_queue.go:47

We started seeing these errors all of a sudden.

[github-actions]

Pinging code owners:

• receiver/prometheus: @Aneurysm9 @dashpole
• exporter/googlemanagedprometheus: @aabmass @dashpole @jsuereth @punya @psx95

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