[BUG] Stop the Elasticsearch async ForceFlush reporting success without waiting

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -82,6 +82,11 @@ Increment the:
 
 * [BUG] Keep the curl retry deadline stable within each attempt
   [#4452](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/4452)
+* [BUG] Elasticsearch: report an asynchronous export's outcome exactly once
+  [#4502](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/4502)
+* [BUG] Stop the Elasticsearch async ForceFlush reporting success without
+  waiting for the sessions it was asked about
+  [#4337](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/4337)
 
 ## [1.29.0] 2026-09-13
 

exporters/elasticsearch/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -55,4 +55,12 @@ if(OTELCPP_BUILD_TESTING)
     TARGET es_log_record_exporter_test
     TEST_PREFIX exporter.
     TEST_LIST es_log_record_exporter_test)
+
+  # AnIndefiniteFlushParksUntilTheOutcomeArrives really does park on the
+  # condition variable, so a regression there does not fail, it stalls until the
+  # exporter's own bound expires. CTest's default is 25 minutes, which is a long
+  # time to spend learning that. This is deliberately well above the bounds the
+  # cases use themselves, so that one of them expiring reports which case failed
+  # rather than being killed from the outside.
+  set_tests_properties(${es_log_record_exporter_test} PROPERTIES TIMEOUT 60)
 endif() # OTELCPP_BUILD_TESTING

exporters/elasticsearch/include/opentelemetry/exporters/elasticsearch/es_log_record_exporter.h

@@ -16,8 +16,9 @@
 
 #ifdef ENABLE_ASYNC_EXPORT
 #  include <condition_variable>
-#  include <cstddef>
+#  include <cstdint>
 #  include <mutex>
+#  include <set>
 #endif
 
 OPENTELEMETRY_BEGIN_NAMESPACE
@@ -122,8 +123,15 @@ class ElasticsearchLogRecordExporter final : public opentelemetry::sdk::logs::Lo
 
   /**
    * Force flush the exporter.
+   *
+   * Waits for the asynchronous sessions already started when the call was made, bounded by the
+   * caller's timeout rather than by the exporter's response timeout.
+   *
    * @param timeout an option timeout, default to max.
-   * @return return true when all data are exported, and false when timeout
+   * @return true when each of those exports has reported a terminal outcome, false on timeout.
+   *         The outcome is published before the session is torn down, so true does not mean
+   *         FinishSession() has run, nor that the batch reached Elasticsearch, which is
+   *         [#3075](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/issues/3075).
    */
   bool ForceFlush(
       std::chrono::microseconds timeout = (std::chrono::microseconds::max)()) noexcept override;
@@ -149,13 +157,21 @@ class ElasticsearchLogRecordExporter final : public opentelemetry::sdk::logs::Lo
 #ifdef ENABLE_ASYNC_EXPORT
   struct SynchronizationData
   {
-    std::atomic<std::size_t> session_counter_{0};
-    std::atomic<std::size_t> finished_session_counter_{0};
+    // next_session_id and running_sessions are guarded by force_flush_cv_m, so a start or a
+    // finish cannot interleave with a waiter's snapshot. The wait compares ids by order, so they
+    // must keep increasing: uint64_t rather than size_t.
+    std::uint64_t next_session_id{0};
+    std::set<std::uint64_t> running_sessions;
     std::condition_variable force_flush_cv;
     std::mutex force_flush_cv_m;
-    std::recursive_mutex force_flush_m;
+
+    // Test synchronization. Raised under force_flush_cv_m once per ForceFlush(), immediately
+    // after that call takes its watermark. No exporter behaviour reads it.
+    std::uint64_t watermarks_taken{0};
   };
   nostd::shared_ptr<SynchronizationData> synchronization_data_;
+
+  friend class ElasticsearchExporterTestPeer;
 #endif
 };
 }  // namespace logs