@opentelemetry/instrumentation-redis-4

What is @opentelemetry/instrumentation-redis-4?

@opentelemetry/instrumentation-redis-4 is an OpenTelemetry instrumentation package for Redis version 4.x. It allows you to automatically collect and report telemetry data from your Redis operations, which can be used for monitoring, tracing, and performance analysis.

What are @opentelemetry/instrumentation-redis-4's main functionalities?

Automatic Tracing

This feature allows you to automatically trace Redis operations. The code sample demonstrates how to set up the OpenTelemetry NodeTracerProvider and register the Redis instrumentation. Once set up, Redis operations like `set` and `get` will be automatically traced.

const { NodeTracerProvider } = require('@opentelemetry/sdk-trace-node');
const { registerInstrumentations } = require('@opentelemetry/instrumentation');
const { RedisInstrumentation } = require('@opentelemetry/instrumentation-redis-4');

const provider = new NodeTracerProvider();
provider.register();

registerInstrumentations({
  instrumentations: [
    new RedisInstrumentation(),
  ],
});

const redis = require('redis');
const client = redis.createClient();

client.on('error', (err) => console.error('Redis Client Error', err));
client.connect();

client.set('key', 'value');
client.get('key', (err, reply) => {
  console.log(reply); // 'value'
});

Custom Span Attributes

This feature allows you to add custom attributes to spans. The code sample demonstrates how to set up a response hook that adds the length of the Redis response as a custom attribute to the span.

const { NodeTracerProvider } = require('@opentelemetry/sdk-trace-node');
const { registerInstrumentations } = require('@opentelemetry/instrumentation');
const { RedisInstrumentation } = require('@opentelemetry/instrumentation-redis-4');

const provider = new NodeTracerProvider();
provider.register();

registerInstrumentations({
  instrumentations: [
    new RedisInstrumentation({
      responseHook: (span, response) => {
        span.setAttribute('redis.response_length', response.length);
      },
    }),
  ],
});

const redis = require('redis');
const client = redis.createClient();

client.on('error', (err) => console.error('Redis Client Error', err));
client.connect();

client.set('key', 'value');
client.get('key', (err, reply) => {
  console.log(reply); // 'value'
});

Other packages similar to @opentelemetry/instrumentation-redis-4

@opentelemetry/instrumentation-redis

This package provides OpenTelemetry instrumentation for Redis versions 2.x and 3.x. It offers similar functionalities to @opentelemetry/instrumentation-redis-4 but is designed for older versions of Redis.

README

OpenTelemetry redis Instrumentation for Node.js

This module provides automatic instrumentation for the redis@^4.0.0 module, which may be loaded using the @opentelemetry/sdk-trace-node package and is included in the @opentelemetry/auto-instrumentations-node bundle.

If total installation size is not constrained, it is recommended to use the @opentelemetry/auto-instrumentations-node bundle with @opentelemetry/sdk-node for the most seamless instrumentation experience.

Compatible with OpenTelemetry JS API and SDK 1.0+.

Installation

npm install --save @opentelemetry/instrumentation-redis-4

Supported Versions

This package supports redis@^4.0.0 For versions redis@^2.6.0 and redis@^3.0.0, please use @opentelemetry/instrumentation-redis

Usage

OpenTelemetry Redis Instrumentation allows the user to automatically collect trace data and export them to the backend of choice, to give observability to distributed systems when working with redis.

To load a specific instrumentation (redis in this case), specify it in the registerInstrumentations' configuration

const { NodeTracerProvider } = require('@opentelemetry/sdk-trace-node');
const { RedisInstrumentation } = require('@opentelemetry/instrumentation-redis-4');
const { registerInstrumentations } = require('@opentelemetry/instrumentation');

const provider = new NodeTracerProvider();
provider.register();

registerInstrumentations({
  instrumentations: [
    new RedisInstrumentation(),
  ],
})

Redis Instrumentation Options

Redis instrumentation has a few options available to choose from. You can set the following:

Options	Type	Description
dbStatementSerializer	DbStatementSerializer (function)	Redis instrumentation will serialize the command to the db.statement attribute using the specified function.
responseHook	RedisResponseCustomAttributeFunction (function)	Function for adding custom attributes on db response. Receives params: span, cmdName, cmdArgs, response
requireParentSpan	boolean	Require parent to create redis span, default when unset is false.

Custom db.statement Serializer

The instrumentation serializes the command into a Span attribute called db.statement. The standard serialization format attempts to be as informative as possible while avoiding the export of potentially sensitive data. The number of serialized arguments depends on the specific command, see the configuration list in @opentelemetry/redis-common.

It is also possible to define a custom serialization function. The function will receive the command name and arguments and must return a string.

Here is a simple example to serialize the command name and all command arguments. Notice that it might capture sensitive data and big payloads:

const { RedisInstrumentation } = require('@opentelemetry/instrumentation-redis');
const redisInstrumentation = new RedisInstrumentation({
  dbStatementSerializer: function (cmdName, cmdArgs) {
    return [cmdName, ...cmdArgs].join(" ");
  },
});

Useful links

• For more information on OpenTelemetry, visit: https://opentelemetry.io/
• For more about OpenTelemetry JavaScript: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js
• For help or feedback on this project, join us in GitHub Discussions

License

Apache 2.0 - See LICENSE for more information.