@opentelemetry/sdk-trace-node
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OpenTelemetry Node SDK provides automatic telemetry (tracing, metrics, etc) for Node.js applications
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OpenTelemetry Node SDK
This module provides automated instrumentation and tracing for Node.js applications.
For manual instrumentation see the @opentelemetry/sdk-trace-base package.
Note: Much of OpenTelemetry JS documentation is written assuming the compiled application is run as CommonJS. For more details on ECMAScript Modules vs CommonJS, refer to esm-support.
How auto instrumentation works
This package exposes a NodeTracerProvider
.
For loading instrumentations please use registerInstrumentations
function from opentelemetry-instrumentation
OpenTelemetry comes with a growing number of instrumentation plugins for well known modules (see supported modules) and an API to create custom instrumentation (see the instrumentation developer guide).
Please note: This module does not bundle any plugins. They need to be installed separately.
This is done by wrapping all tracing-relevant functions.
This instrumentation code will automatically
- extract a trace-context identifier from inbound requests to allow distributed tracing (if applicable)
- make sure that this current trace-context is propagated while the transaction traverses an application (see context document in @opentelemetry/api for an in-depth explanation)
- add this trace-context identifier to outbound requests to allow continuing the distributed trace on the next hop (if applicable)
- create and end spans
Creating custom spans on top of auto-instrumentation
Additionally to automated instrumentation, NodeTracerProvider
exposes the same API as @opentelemetry/sdk-trace-base, allowing creating custom spans if needed.
Installation
npm install --save @opentelemetry/api
npm install --save @opentelemetry/sdk-trace-node
# Install instrumentation plugins
npm install --save @opentelemetry/instrumentation-http
# and for example one additional
npm install --save @opentelemetry/instrumentation-graphql
Usage
The following code will configure the NodeTracerProvider
to instrument http
(and any other installed supported
modules)
using @opentelemetry/plugin-http
.
const { registerInstrumentations } = require('@opentelemetry/instrumentation');
const { NodeTracerProvider } = require('@opentelemetry/sdk-trace-node');
// Create and configure NodeTracerProvider
const provider = new NodeTracerProvider();
// Initialize the provider
provider.register();
// register and load instrumentation and old plugins - old plugins will be loaded automatically as previously
// but instrumentations needs to be added
registerInstrumentations({
});
// Your application code - http will automatically be instrumented if
// @opentelemetry/plugin-http is present
const http = require('http');
Instrumentation configuration
In the following example:
- the express instrumentation is enabled
- the http instrumentation has a custom config for a
requestHook
const { registerInstrumentations } = require('@opentelemetry/instrumentation');
const { HttpInstrumentation } = require('@opentelemetry/instrumentation-http');
const { ExpressInstrumentation } = require('@opentelemetry/instrumentation-express');
const provider = new NodeTracerProvider();
provider.register();
// register and load instrumentation and old plugins - old plugins will be loaded automatically as previously
// but instrumentations needs to be added
registerInstrumentations({
instrumentations: [
new ExpressInstrumentation(),
new HttpInstrumentation({
requestHook: (span, request) => {
span.setAttribute("custom request hook attribute", "request");
},
}),
],
});
Examples
See how to automatically instrument http and gRPC / grpc-js using node-sdk.
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.