Remove redundant status description from span error status

juandelacruz-calvo · juandelacruz-calvo · commit 82bffea3cb8b · 2026-03-13T09:51:55.000Z
The gRPC status code is already captured in the RPC_GRPC_STATUS_CODE
attribute, making the description in span status unnecessary.
diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-grpc/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/grpc/_client.py b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-grpc/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/grpc/_client.py
@@ -64,7 +64,6 @@ def callback(response_future):
                 span.set_status(
                     Status(
                         status_code=StatusCode.ERROR,
-                        description=str(code),
                     )
                 )
                 return

Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -64,7 +64,6 @@ def callback(response_future):`
`64`	`64`	`span.set_status(`
`65`	`65`	`Status(`
`66`	`66`	`status_code=StatusCode.ERROR,`
`67`		`- description=str(code),`
`68`	`67`	`)`
`69`	`68`	`)`
`70`	`69`	`return`