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package (#6203)
This copes the `go.opentelemetry.io/auto/sdk` package into the `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace` package. This is done to avoid package import cycles and still provide an auto-instrumentable SDK (see https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go-instrumentation/issues/974). ## Overview of changes The code copied is updated with the following changes. The over-all goal is to ensure none of this is exported and follows the `auto/sdk` as close as possible to help maintenance. ### `trace/auto.go` Consolidation of the following into a single file: -aea085dd2a/sdk/tracer_provider.go
-aea085dd2a/sdk/tracer.go
-aea085dd2a/sdk/span.go
-aea085dd2a/sdk/limit.go
Has the following changes: - `func TracerProvider()` renamed to `newAutoTracerProvider` - `type tracerProvider struct` renamed to `autoTracerProvider` - `type tracer struct` renamed to `autoTracer` - `type span struct` renamed to `autoSpan` - Lint issues addressed based on this repositories configuration (these changes are being back-ported upstream) ### `trace/auto_test.go` Consolidation of the following into a single file: -aea085dd2a/sdk/tracer_provider_test.go
-aea085dd2a/sdk/tracer_test.go
-aea085dd2a/sdk/span_test.go
-aea085dd2a/sdk/limit_test.go
Has the following changes: - Renames in `trace/auto.go` are applied here - Lint issues addressed based on this repositories configuration (these changes are being back-ported upstream) ### `trace/internal/telemetry` Copied fromaea085dd2a/sdk/internal/telemetry
- Pacakge vanity URLs added - Lint issues addressed based on this repositories configuration (these changes are being back-ported upstream) - Use of the package name has been updated #### `trace/internal/telemetry/test` Copied fromaea085dd2a/sdk/internal/telemetry/test
- Module name updated - Documentation updated with new package name - Testing values updated with new package name --------- Co-authored-by: Ron Federman <73110295+RonFed@users.noreply.github.com>
OpenTelemetry-Go
OpenTelemetry-Go is the Go implementation of OpenTelemetry. It provides a set of APIs to directly measure performance and behavior of your software and send this data to observability platforms.
Project Status
Signal | Status |
---|---|
Traces | Stable |
Metrics | Stable |
Logs | Beta1 |
Progress and status specific to this repository is tracked in our project boards and milestones.
Project versioning information and stability guarantees can be found in the versioning documentation.
Compatibility
OpenTelemetry-Go ensures compatibility with the current supported versions of the Go language:
Each major Go release is supported until there are two newer major releases. For example, Go 1.5 was supported until the Go 1.7 release, and Go 1.6 was supported until the Go 1.8 release.
For versions of Go that are no longer supported upstream, opentelemetry-go will stop ensuring compatibility with these versions in the following manner:
- A minor release of opentelemetry-go will be made to add support for the new supported release of Go.
- The following minor release of opentelemetry-go will remove compatibility testing for the oldest (now archived upstream) version of Go. This, and future, releases of opentelemetry-go may include features only supported by the currently supported versions of Go.
Currently, this project supports the following environments.
OS | Go Version | Architecture |
---|---|---|
Ubuntu | 1.23 | amd64 |
Ubuntu | 1.22 | amd64 |
Ubuntu | 1.23 | 386 |
Ubuntu | 1.22 | 386 |
Linux | 1.23 | arm64 |
Linux | 1.22 | arm64 |
macOS 13 | 1.23 | amd64 |
macOS 13 | 1.22 | amd64 |
macOS | 1.23 | arm64 |
macOS | 1.22 | arm64 |
Windows | 1.23 | amd64 |
Windows | 1.22 | amd64 |
Windows | 1.23 | 386 |
Windows | 1.22 | 386 |
While this project should work for other systems, no compatibility guarantees are made for those systems currently.
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 otel package. The 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.
All officially supported exporters for the OpenTelemetry project are contained in the exporters directory.
Exporter | Logs | Metrics | Traces |
---|---|---|---|
OTLP | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Prometheus | ✓ | ||
stdout | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Zipkin | ✓ |
Contributing
See the contributing documentation.