Code-level application monitoring for OpenTelemetry

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AMA: Getting Started with OpenTelemetry and Sentry

Getting Started is Simple

Grab the Open Telemetry SDK:

go get github.com/getsentry/sentry-go \ github.com/getsentry/sentry-go/otel

Configure your properties file:

import ( "go.opentelemetry.io/otel" sdktrace "go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/trace" "github.com/getsentry/sentry-go" "github.com/getsentry/sentry-go/otel" // ... ) sentry.Init(sentry.ClientOptions{ Dsn: "__DSN__", EnableTracing: true, TracesSampleRate: 1.0, Debug: true, }) tp := sdktrace.NewTracerProvider( sdktrace.WithSpanProcessor(sentryotel.NewSentrySpanProcessor()), ) otel.SetTracerProvider(tp) otel.SetTextMapPropagator(sentryotel.NewSentryPropagator())

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FAQs

The collector approach ultimately removes the Sentry SDKs from the equation, which means you will not get the benefits of advanced error tracking, or any other features Sentry SDKs provide. That includes new product features like profiling and crons. So the approach we decided upon was to treat OTel the same way we treat any other framework. The SDKs can plugin and capture all the relevant data to send to Sentry where we can couple it with all the other features, while getting all insights from your OTel data.

The parent-most OTel span on the OTel span tree that’s created becomes the transaction, and the rest of the spans on the OTel span tree (descendants, branches/leaves) are the spans inside of it.

Yes. Our goal is a flawless conversion of OTel data into Sentry. We do not do some things like automatically set tags. But if you see something amiss, reach out to support, or create an issue for SDK team on one of our repos, we will make sure it is routed to the right place.

A trace represents the record of the entire operation you want to measure or track - like page load, an instance of a user completing some action in your application, or a cron job in your backend. When a trace includes work in multiple services, such as those listed above, it's called a distributed trace, because the trace is distributed across those services.
Each trace consists of one or more tree-like structures called transactions, the nodes of which are called spans. In most cases, each transaction represents a single instance of a service being called, and each span within that transaction represents that service performing a single unit of work, whether calling a function within that service or making a call to a different service. Learn more about distributed tracing.

Looking for an example suite of microservices already instrumented with Sentry and OTel SDKs? We got you covered. Check out our demo repo in Github here. This is a fork of the official example provided by OpenTelemetry we use for our own testing purposed.

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