Do not report an error if the splunk sink can't HTTP POST
The metric is more useful, and the sheer volume of these errors (which
cluster together) tends to cause problems with log ingestion / any
error collector. Let's not do that.
@@ -212,8 +212,6 @@ func (sss *splunkSpanSink) makeHTTPRequest(req *http.Request) {
return
}
if err != nil {
- sss.log.WithError(err).
- Error("Could not execute HEC request")
samples.Add(ssf.Count(failureMetric, 1, map[string]string{
"cause": "execution",
}))
