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* Add TraceState to API * Add tests for TraceState * Update related tests - stdout exporter test - SDK test * Update OTLP span transform * Update CHANGELOG * Change TraceState to struct instead of pointer - Adjust tests for trace API - Adjust adjacent parts of codebase (test utils, SDK etc.) * Add methods to assert equality - for type SpanContext, if SpanID, TraceID, TraceFlag and TraceState are equal - for type TraceState, if entries of both respective trace states are equal Signed-off-by: Matej Gera <matejgera@gmail.com> * Copy values for new TraceState, adjust tests * Use IsEqualWith in remaining tests instead of assertion func * Further feedback, minor improvements - Move IsEqualWith method to be only in test package - Minor improvements, typos etc. Co-authored-by: Tyler Yahn <MrAlias@users.noreply.github.com>
OpenTelemetry-Go
The Go OpenTelemetry implementation.
Project Status
Warning: this project is currently in a pre-GA phase. Backwards incompatible changes may be introduced in subsequent minor version releases as we work to track the evolving OpenTelemetry specification and user feedback.
Our progress towards a GA release candidate is tracked in this project board. This release candidate will follow semantic versioning and will be released with a major version greater than zero.
Progress and status specific to this repository is tracked in our local project boards and milestones.
Getting Started
You can find a getting started guide on opentelemetry.io.
OpenTelemetry's goal is to provide a single set of APIs to capture distributed traces and metrics from your application and send them to an observability platform. This project allows you to do just that for applications written in Go. There are two steps to this process: instrument your application, and configure an exporter.
Instrumentation
To start capturing distributed traces and metric events from your application it first needs to be instrumented. The easiest way to do this is by using an instrumentation library for your code. Be sure to check out the officially supported instrumentation libraries.
If you need to extend the telemetry an instrumentation library provides or want to build your own instrumentation for your application directly you will need to use the go.opentelemetry.io/otel/api package. The included examples are a good way to see some practical uses of this process.
Export
Now that your application is instrumented to collect telemetry, it needs an export pipeline to send that telemetry to an observability platform.
You can find officially supported exporters here and in the companion contrib repository. Additionally, there are many vendor specific or 3rd party exporters for OpenTelemetry. These exporters are broken down by trace and metric support.
Contributing
See the contributing documentation.