dropped

Records evicted by the buffer cap under BufferPolicy.DROP_OLDEST, cumulative.

This is the only per-record account of eviction. Until #2218 the exporter emitted one warn per evicted record; at DEFAULT_MAX_LOG_RECORDS the buffer is full permanently, so that was a line per exported record narrating a ring buffer behaving exactly as configured — measurable on the export hot path and useless as a signal, because a signal that fires always is not one. The count is exact; a rate-limited summary line still says it out loud for a consumer who never reads health.

Not to be confused with CaptureHealth.droppedEvents in :kuilt-otel-logging, which counts events discarded by the capture queue above this exporter — those never reached it. This counts records the exporter took and then recycled.