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OpenTelemetry
Datadog Exporter for Cloudflare
An OpenTelemetry
datadog exporter implementation for Cloudflare
Quirks
There are currently some incompatibilities between Datadog and OpenTelemetry
, and this manifests
as minor quirks to this exporter.
Firstly Datadog uses operation_name
to describe what OpenTracing
would call a component.
Or to put it another way, in OpenTracing
the operation / span name’s are relatively
granular and might be used to identify a specific endpoint. In datadog, however, they
are less granular - it is expected in Datadog that a service will have single
primary span name that is the root of all traces within that service, with an additional piece of
metadata called resource_name
providing granularity. See here
The Datadog Golang API takes the approach of using a resource.name
OpenTelemetry
attribute to set the
resource_name
. See here
Unfortunately, this breaks compatibility with other OpenTelemetry
exporters which expect
a more granular operation name - as per the OpenTracing
specification.
This exporter therefore takes a different approach of naming the span with the name of the
tracing provider, and using the span name to set the resource_name
. This should in most cases
lead to the behaviour that users expect.
Datadog additionally has a span_type
string that alters the rendering of the spans in the web UI.
This can be set as the span.type
OpenTelemetry
span attribute.
For standard values see here
Bring your own http client
Users can choose appropriate http clients to align with their runtime.
Based on the feature enabled. The only client available is reqwest, feel free to implement other http clients.
Note that async http clients may need specific runtime otherwise it will panic. User should make sure the http client is running in appropriate runime.
Users can always use their own http clients by implementing HttpClient
trait.
Structs
- Datadog span exporter
- Builder for
ExporterConfig
struct. - Extracts and injects
SpanContext
s intoExtractor
s orInjector
s using Datadog’s header format. - A
SpanProcessor
that exports asynchronously when asked to do it.
Enums
- Wrap type for errors from opentelemetry datadog exporter
Traits
Functions
- Create a new Datadog exporter pipeline builder.