solarwinds-apm 0.2.0

Custom distro for OpenTelemetry to connect to SolarWinds

solarwinds_apm

SolarWinds Observability distribution of OpenTelemetry Python, providing automatic instrumentation of Python applications for APM.

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Requirements

All published artifacts support Python 3.7 or higher. A full list of system requirements is available at: https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/observability/default.htm#cshid=app-sysreqs-python-agent

See CONTRIBUTING.md for how to build for development.

Getting Started

SolarWinds APM captures distributed traces and metrics from your application and sends them to SolarWinds Observability for analysis and visualization.

To install solarwinds_apm in your Python service (already includes OpenTelemetry API and SDK):

pip install solarwinds-apm
opentelemetry-bootstrap --action=install

Run your application with the prefix opentelemetry-instrument to wrap all common Python frameworks and start exporting traces and metrics:

opentelemetry-instrument <command_to_run_your_service>

You can also add custom span generation to your code by using the OpenTelemetry SDK. For example:

from opentelemetry import trace
tracer = trace.get_tracer(__name__)

with tracer.start_as_current_span("my_custom_span"):
   # Do business things

Documentation

Online documentation on SolarWinds APM features, configuration, and more is available at https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/observability/default.htm#cshid=app-add-python-agent