OpenTelemetry gRPC Instrumentation for Node.js

Note: This is an experimental package under active development. New releases may include breaking changes.

This module provides automatic instrumentation for @grpc/grpc-js. Currently, version 1.x of @grpc/grpc-js is supported.

For automatic instrumentation see the @opentelemetry/sdk-trace-node package.

Installation

npm install --save @opentelemetry/instrumentation-grpc

Supported Versions

• @grpc/grpc-js versions ^1.0.0

Usage

OpenTelemetry gRPC Instrumentation allows the user to automatically collect trace data and export them to the backend of choice, to give observability to distributed systems when working with (grpc-js).

To load a specific instrumentation (gRPC in this case), specify it in the Node Tracer's configuration.

const { NodeTracerProvider } = require('@opentelemetry/sdk-trace-node');
const { GrpcInstrumentation } = require('@opentelemetry/instrumentation-grpc');
const { registerInstrumentations } = require('@opentelemetry/instrumentation');

const provider = new NodeTracerProvider({
  spanProcessors: [new SimpleSpanProcessor(new ConsoleSpanExporter())]
});

provider.register();

registerInstrumentations({
  instrumentations: [new GrpcInstrumentation()]
});

See examples/grpc-js for examples.

gRPC Instrumentation Options

gRPC instrumentation accepts the following configuration:

| Options | Type | Description | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | ignoreGrpcMethods | IgnoreMatcher[] | gRPC instrumentation will not trace any methods that match anything in this list. You may pass a string (case-insensitive match), a RegExp object, or a filter function. | | metadataToSpanAttributes | object | List of case insensitive metadata to convert to span attributes. Client and server (outgoing requests, incoming responses) metadata attributes will be converted to span attributes in the form of rpc.{request\response}.metadata.metadata_key, e.g. rpc.response.metadata.date |

Useful links

• For more information on OpenTelemetry, visit: https://opentelemetry.io/
• For more about OpenTelemetry JavaScript: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js
• For help or feedback on this project, join us in GitHub Discussions

License

Apache 2.0 - See LICENSE for more information.