connectrpc.com/otelconnect
adds support for OpenTelemetry
tracing and metrics collection to Connect servers and clients.
For more on Connect, OpenTelemetry, and otelconnect
, see the Connect
announcement blog post and the observability documentation on
connectrpc.com.
package main
import (
"context"
"fmt"
"log"
"net/http"
"connectrpc.com/connect"
"connectrpc.com/otelconnect"
// Generated from your protobuf schema by protoc-gen-go and
// protoc-gen-connect-go.
pingv1 "connectrpc.com/otelconnect/internal/gen/observability/ping/v1"
"connectrpc.com/otelconnect/internal/gen/observability/ping/v1/pingv1connect"
)
func main() {
mux := http.NewServeMux()
otelInterceptor, err := otelconnect.NewInterceptor()
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
// otelconnect.NewInterceptor provides an interceptor that adds tracing and
// metrics to both clients and handlers. By default, it uses OpenTelemetry's
// global TracerProvider and MeterProvider, which you can configure by
// following the OpenTelemetry documentation. If you'd prefer to avoid
// globals, use otelconnect.WithTracerProvider and
// otelconnect.WithMeterProvider.
mux.Handle(pingv1connect.NewPingServiceHandler(
&pingv1connect.UnimplementedPingServiceHandler{},
connect.WithInterceptors(otelInterceptor),
))
http.ListenAndServe("localhost:8080", mux)
}
func makeRequest() {
otelInterceptor, err := otelconnect.NewInterceptor()
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
client := pingv1connect.NewPingServiceClient(
http.DefaultClient,
"http://localhost:8080",
connect.WithInterceptors(otelInterceptor),
)
resp, err := client.Ping(
context.Background(),
connect.NewRequest(&pingv1.PingRequest{}),
)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
fmt.Println(resp)
}
By default, instrumented servers are conservative and behave as though they're
internet-facing. They don't trust any tracing information sent by the client,
and will create new trace spans for each request. The new spans are linked to
the remote span for reference (using OpenTelemetry's
trace.Link
), but
tracing UIs will display the request as a new top-level transaction.
If your server is deployed as an internal service, configure otelconnect
to
trust the client's tracing information using
otelconnect.WithTrustRemote
. With this option, servers
will create child spans for each request.
By default, the OpenTelemetry RPC conventions produce
high-cardinality server-side metric and tracing output. In particular, servers
tag all metrics and trace data with the server's IP address and the remote port
number. To drop these attributes, use
otelconnect.WithoutServerPeerAttributes
. For
more customizable attribute filtering, use
otelconnect.WithFilter.
Unary | Streaming Client | Streaming Handler | |
---|---|---|---|
Metrics | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Tracing | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
- connect-go: Service handlers and clients for Go
- connect-swift: Swift clients for idiomatic gRPC & Connect RPC
- connect-kotlin: Kotlin clients for idiomatic gRPC & Connect RPC
- connect-es: Type-safe APIs with Protobuf and TypeScript.
- Buf Studio: web UI for ad-hoc RPCs
- conformance: Connect, gRPC, and gRPC-Web interoperability tests
otelconnect
supports:
- The two most recent major releases of Go.
- v1 of the
go.opentelemetry.io/otel
tracing and metrics SDK.
Offered under the Apache 2 license.