In some cases the gce metadata may have info that is completely unnecessary/unhelpful as a metric label and should not be included. Specifically when you have metadata_startup_script set to a long script that is included as a huge label in the generated scrape config. This can cause you to run into an almost identical issue as #1221 where parts of that startup script are attempted to be interpreted leading to the otel agent unable to start the metrics portion of the service.

Can metadata_startup_script (startup_script) always be excluded from https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/ops-agent/blob/master/confgenerator/prometheus.go#L170-L173 or can there be a config option available to disable it from being included and potentially causing the otel agent to exit due to a bad config?