@aspecto/opentelemetry-plugin-express

aspecto-opentelemetry-express

This module provide enhanced instrumentation for the express web framework. The instrumentation conforms to the Semantic conventions for HTTP spans as well as adding few other attributes:

• Request and Response http payloads (body)
• Request and Response http headers
• Runtime layers executed as part of the request (express Routers, Routes and middlewares)

Usage

This plugin is automatically used by aspecto's tracing library.

To manually add it to a trace provider:

const { NodeTracerProvider } = require('@opentelemetry/node');

const provider = new NodeTracerProvider({
  plugins: {
    express: {
        enabled: true,
        path: '@aspecto/opentelemetry-plugin-express',
    },
  }
});