opentelemetry-instrumentation-django 0.18b1

OpenTelemetry Instrumentation for Django

This library allows tracing requests for Django applications.

Installation

pip install opentelemetry-instrumentation-django

Configuration

Exclude lists

To exclude certain URLs from being tracked, set the environment variable OTEL_PYTHON_DJANGO_EXCLUDED_URLS with comma delimited regexes representing which URLs to exclude.

For example,

export OTEL_PYTHON_DJANGO_EXCLUDED_URLS="client/.*/info,healthcheck"

will exclude requests such as https://site/client/123/info and https://site/xyz/healthcheck.

Request attributes

To extract certain attributes from Django’s request object and use them as span attributes, set the environment variable OTEL_PYTHON_DJANGO_TRACED_REQUEST_ATTRS to a comma delimited list of request attribute names.

For example,

export OTEL_PYTHON_DJANGO_TRACED_REQUEST_ATTRS='path_info,content_type'

will extract path_info and content_type attributes from every traced request and add them as span attritbues.

Django Request object reference: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/ref/request-response/#attributes

References

• Django

• OpenTelemetry Instrumentation for Django

• OpenTelemetry Project