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+`docs/examples`: add example on how to manually setup the SDK to get SDK metrics
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+SDK Metrics
+===========
+
+Some SDK components can emit telemetry about their internal state according to the `semantic conventions for OpenTelemetry SDK metrics <https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/semconv/otel/sdk-metrics/>`_. At the time of writing these semantic conventions are still in development and in order to have them exported you need to set the ``OTEL_PYTHON_SDK_INTERNAL_METRICS_ENABLED`` environment variable to ``true``.
+
+The provided :scm_web:`sdk_metrics.py <docs/examples/metrics/sdk-metrics/sdk_metrics.py>` example shows how to setup manually the SDK in order to send them.
+
+Installation
+------------
+
+.. code-block:: sh
+
+    pip install -r requirements.txt
+
+Run the Example
+---------------
+
+Start an OTLP HTTP collector or compatible backend listening on the default
+endpoint, ``http://localhost:4318``. To use a different endpoint, configure
+``OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT`` or the signal-specific OTLP exporter
+environment variables.
+
+.. code-block:: sh
+
+    python sdk_metrics.py
+
+The example sends a span, a log record, and the OpenTelemetry SDK health
+metrics emitted by the configured SDK components.
+
+Useful links
+------------
+
+- OpenTelemetry_
+- :doc:`../../../api/metrics`
+
+.. _OpenTelemetry: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/
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+opentelemetry-api==1.44.0
+opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http==1.44.0
+opentelemetry-sdk==1.44.0
+opentelemetry-semantic-conventions==0.65b0
diff --git a/docs/examples/metrics/sdk-metrics/sdk_metrics.py b/docs/examples/metrics/sdk-metrics/sdk_metrics.py
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+# Copyright The OpenTelemetry Authors
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+import os
+import time
+
+from opentelemetry import _logs, metrics, trace
+from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.http._log_exporter import (
+    OTLPLogExporter,
+)
+from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.http.metric_exporter import (
+    OTLPMetricExporter,
+)
+from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.http.trace_exporter import (
+    OTLPSpanExporter,
+)
+from opentelemetry.sdk._logs import LoggerProvider
+from opentelemetry.sdk._logs.export import SimpleLogRecordProcessor
+from opentelemetry.sdk.metrics import MeterProvider
+from opentelemetry.sdk.metrics.export import PeriodicExportingMetricReader
+from opentelemetry.sdk.resources import Resource
+from opentelemetry.sdk.trace import TracerProvider
+from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import SimpleSpanProcessor
+
+os.environ.setdefault("OTEL_PYTHON_SDK_INTERNAL_METRICS_ENABLED", "true")
+
+resource = Resource.create({"service.name": "sdk-metrics-example"})
+
+meter_provider = MeterProvider(resource=resource)
+metrics.set_meter_provider(meter_provider)
+
+# Pass the metrics provider into each SDK component that should report
+# internal health metrics.
+metric_exporter = OTLPMetricExporter(meter_provider=meter_provider)
+metric_reader = PeriodicExportingMetricReader(
+    metric_exporter,
+    export_interval_millis=250,  # Intentionally low for example purposes only
+)
+meter_provider.add_metric_reader(metric_reader)
+
+tracer_provider = TracerProvider(
+    resource=resource,
+    meter_provider=meter_provider,
+)
+tracer_provider.add_span_processor(
+    SimpleSpanProcessor(
+        OTLPSpanExporter(meter_provider=meter_provider),
+        meter_provider=meter_provider,
+    )
+)
+trace.set_tracer_provider(tracer_provider)
+
+logger_provider = LoggerProvider(
+    resource=resource,
+    meter_provider=meter_provider,
+)
+logger_provider.add_log_record_processor(
+    SimpleLogRecordProcessor(
+        OTLPLogExporter(meter_provider=meter_provider),
+        meter_provider=meter_provider,
+    )
+)
+_logs.set_logger_provider(logger_provider)
+
+tracer = trace.get_tracer(__name__)
+logger = _logs.get_logger(__name__)
+
+with tracer.start_as_current_span("example-span"):
+    logger.emit(body="example log record")
+    # Let the periodic reader export at least once so exporter self-metrics
+    # are available for the final metrics export.
+    time.sleep(0.5)
+
+tracer_provider.force_flush()
+logger_provider.force_flush()
+meter_provider.force_flush()
+
+tracer_provider.shutdown()
+logger_provider.shutdown()
+meter_provider.shutdown()