Python

Instrument your app using the opentelemetry-instrumentation package and export traces to Aspecto's opentelemetry collector.

Install Opentelemetry Instrumentation Packages

pip install opentelemetry-instrumentation
pip install opentelemetry-distro 
pip install opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc

To create automatic traces from packages you use in your application (flask, requests, etc), you need to additionally install a relevant instrumentation package. For example, if you use flask in your application, you need to install the package opentelemetry-instrumentation-flask .

To print recommended instrumentation packages based on your active site-packages directory, run:

opentelemetry-bootstrap --action=requirements

To install these packages, run:

opentelemetry-bootstrap --action=install

You can also directly install a specific instrumentation package. A list of community instrumentation packages can be found in the opentelemetry-python-contrib repo here​

Running Your App with Auto Instrumentation

You need to setup the following environment variables to export the traces to Aspecto:

• OTEL_SERVICE_NAME - set to the name of the service

• OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS - set to Authorization=${YOUR_ASPECTO_TOKEN} . You can get your token here.

• OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_TRACES_ENDPOINT - set to https://otelcol.aspecto.io:4317

Then, run your app with the opentelemetry-instrument command:

opentelemetry-instrument python app.py