Crate opentelemetry_application_insights[][src]

An Azure Application Insights exporter implementation for OpenTelemetry Rust.

Disclaimer: This is not an official Microsoft product.

Usage

Configure a OpenTelemetry pipeline using the Application Insights exporter and start creating spans (this example requires the reqwest-client-blocking feature):

use opentelemetry::trace::Tracer as _;

fn main() {
    let instrumentation_key = std::env::var("INSTRUMENTATION_KEY").unwrap();
    let (tracer, _uninstall) = opentelemetry_application_insights::new_pipeline(instrumentation_key)
        .with_client(reqwest::blocking::Client::new())
        .install();

    tracer.in_span("main", |_cx| {});
}

Features

The functions build and install automatically configure an asynchronous batch exporter if you enable either the async-std or tokio feature for the opentelemetry crate. Otherwise spans will be exported synchronously.

In order to support different async runtimes, the exporter requires you to specify an HTTP client that works with your chosen runtime. This crate comes with support for:

  • surf for async-std: enable the surf-client and opentelemetry/async-std features and configure the exporter with with_client(surf::Client::new()).
  • reqwest for tokio: enable the reqwest-client and opentelemetry/tokio features and configure the exporter with with_client(reqwest::Client::new()).
  • reqwest for synchronous exports: enable the reqwest-blocking-client feature and configure the exporter with with_client(reqwest::blocking::Client::new()).

Alternatively you can bring any other HTTP client by implementing the HttpClient trait.

Attribute mapping

OpenTelemetry and Application Insights are using different terminology. This crate tries it’s best to map OpenTelemetry fields to their correct Application Insights pendant.

Spans

The OpenTelemetry SpanKind determines the Application Insights telemetry type:

OpenTelemetry SpanKindApplication Insights telemetry type
CLIENT, PRODUCER, INTERNALDependency
SERVER, CONSUMERRequest

The Span’s status determines the Success field of a Dependency or Request. Success is false if the status Error; otherwise true.

The following of the Span’s attributes map to special fields in Application Insights (the mapping tries to follow the OpenTelemetry semantic conventions for trace and resource).

Note: for INTERNAL Spans the Dependency Type is always "InProc".

OpenTelemetry attribute keyApplication Insights field
service.versionContext: Application version (ai.application.ver)
enduser.idContext: Authenticated user id (ai.user.authUserId)
service.namespace + service.nameContext: Cloud role (ai.cloud.role)
service.instance.idContext: Cloud role instance (ai.cloud.roleInstance)
telemetry.sdk.name + telemetry.sdk.versionContext: Internal SDK version (ai.internal.sdkVersion)
SpanKind::Server + http.method + http.routeContext: Operation Name (ai.operation.name)
ai.*Context: AppInsights Tag (ai.*)
http.urlDependency Data
db.statementDependency Data
http.hostDependency Target
net.peer.name + net.peer.portDependency Target
net.peer.ip + net.peer.portDependency Target
db.nameDependency Target
http.status_codeDependency Result code
db.systemDependency Type
messaging.systemDependency Type
rpc.systemDependency Type
"HTTP" if any http. attribute existsDependency Type
"DB" if any db. attribute existsDependency Type
http.urlRequest Url
http.scheme + http.host + http.targetRequest Url
http.client_ipRequest Source
net.peer.ipRequest Source
http.status_codeRequest Response code

All other attributes are directly converted to custom properties.

For Requests the attributes http.method and http.route override the Name.

Events

Events are converted into Exception telemetry if the event name equals "exception" (see OpenTelemetry semantic conventions for exceptions) with the following mapping:

OpenTelemetry attribute keyApplication Insights field
exception.typeException type
exception.messageException message
exception.stacktraceException call stack

All other events are converted into Trace telemetry.

All other attributes are directly converted to custom properties.

Modules

attrs

Attributes for Application Insights context fields

Structs

Exporter

Application Insights span exporter

PipelineBuilder

Application Insights exporter pipeline builder

Uninstall

Guard that uninstalls the Application Insights trace pipeline when dropped

Enums

Error

Errors that occurred during span export.

Traits

HttpClient

HTTP client used by the exporter to send telemetry to Application Insights

Functions

new_pipeline

Create a new Application Insights exporter pipeline builder