OpenTelemetry is a set of APIs, SDKs and other components (like the OpenTelemetry Collector or Operator) designed for the generation of high-quality telemetry data (traces, metrics, and logs) from cloud-native software. This tag is suitable for questions about operating OpenTelemetry components (such as the collector), instrumenting software or libraries to take advantage of it, or questions about writing new OpenTelemetry components.
Questions tagged [open-telemetry]
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Integrating OpenTelemetry into my .netCore (with akka.net) framework: ActivitySource or Tracer?
I'm completely new to OTel and tracing and have been learning a bit the past few days.
I've figured out, that Otel and .net have different names for the same things. ActivitySource in .Net is Tracer in OTel and Span in Otel is Activity in .Net. Is…

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Opentelemetry- Typescript Project (Zipkin exporter)
I have a simple hello-world typescript project that I'm trying to set up opentelemetry on it. I want to send the traces to console and Zipkin.
I run the app but I don't get any tracer neither on console nor on Zipkin. I can't exactly pin-point…

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How to not propagate Activity in Task.Factory.StartNew
I have the following code:
Task task = null;
var channel = System.Threading.Channels.Channel.CreateUnbounded();
using (var activity = MyActivitySource.StartActivity("Parent"))
{
task = Task.Factory.StartNew(async () =>
{
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Using Baggage with openTelemetry (Java) automaton tools
Please consult adding some extra information to trace (span's) when using openTelemetry javaagent for instrumentation.
Can I use the Baggage API for…

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Enrich callback not being called in OpenTelemetry.net, SqlClient
This is on .NET 6.
So I've added an enrich callback with the purpose of adding each parameter as a tag:
appBuilder.Services.AddOpenTelemetryTracing((builder) =>
builder
.AddAspNetCoreInstrumentation()
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OpenTelemetry autoinstrumentation. Error with export spans via OTel collector to Jaeger
I have a simple spring boot app and am trying to learn how to export spans with opentelemetry-javaagent via OpenTelemetry Collector in Jaeger. But I'm getting an error. My application provides a simple post Rest API.
Could you help me please what am…

Igor Vologodskiy
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OpenTelemetry TLS error "first record does not look like a TLS handshake"
I am using OpenTelemetry k8s operator as well as the Jaeger operator. I am trying to enable TLS between the two as well as my Quarkus application and I am running into some problems. The error that I am receiving is "ServerHandshake" failed: tls:…

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Docker Windows | x509: certificate is not valid for any names
I am pushing OTEL traces to splunk and facing below error.
{"kind": "exporter", "name": "splunk_hec", "error": "Post \https://prd-p-fyu1e.splunkcloud.com:8088/services/collector\: x509: certificate signed by unknown authority, but wanted to match…

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How do I transfer traces and measurements from ECS to ElasticSearch?
I want to transfer the traces and measurements for AWS ECS. I have made a script where I use aws-otel-collector collect traces and measurements.
export const service = new awsx.ecs.FargateService("backend", {
taskDefinitionArgs: {
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How to use extensions in OpenTelemetry java
I am trying to extend OpenTelemetry java agent and I don't see any indication it is trying to load my jar.
I am running the following cmd:
java -javaagent:../src/main/resources/opentelemetry-javaagent.jar…

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how to generate X-Amzn-Trace-Id for Golang in the simplest way
I have been seeing this documentation by AWS
Is there any simple way to generate "X-Amzn-Trace-Id" with X-Ray?
the func NewIDGenerator() doesn't produce the format of Root xxx.
or can we just use a trusted library for it? Thank you

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What is the difference between docker run --config vs docker compose config?
So what I am looking at is a docker run command being used in to create a docker container for open telemetry that passes in a config command, and the code looks like...
$ git clone git@github.com:open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector.git; \
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Add tags to every span of application using spring sleuth
I am trying to add some tags to all of my traces going though my application. I tried without success to extends the DefaultMessageSpanCustomizer as showed in the docs like
@Component
class SpanCustomizerConfig extends DefaultMessageSpanCustomizer…

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Logging and Metrics release plans
I am using OpenTelemetry for a long time for my tracing-related solutions, but now I want to also try logging and metrics support. As I am able to see both are in development and not released yet, so are there any plans to release for a stable…
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Opentelemetry: javaagent jaeger exporter - add header
I have a problem with jaeger exporter, I have been looking for a solution for a long time and I understand that the solution is either not there or it has not been done yet.
Is this at all possible to solve somehow?
How to add header to jaeger…

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