@opentelemetry/plugin-grpc

OpenTelemetry gRPC Instrumentation for Node.js

This module provides automatic instrumentation for grpc. Currently, version 1.x of the Node.js gRPC library is supported.

For automatic instrumentation see the @opentelemetry/node package.

Installation

npm install --save @opentelemetry/plugin-grpc

Usage

OpenTelemetry gRPC 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 gRPC.

To load a specific plugin (gRPC in this case), specify it in the Node Tracer's configuration.

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

const registry = new NodeTracerRegistry({
  plugins: {
    grpc: {
      enabled: true,
      // You may use a package name or absolute path to the file.
      path: '@opentelemetry/plugin-grpc',
    }
  }
});

To load all the supported plugins, use below approach. Each plugin is only loaded when the module that it patches is loaded; in other words, there is no computational overhead for listing plugins for unused modules.

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

const registry = new NodeTracerRegistry();

See examples/grpc for a short example.

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 on gitter

License

Apache 2.0 - See LICENSE for more information.

Changelog

0.3.3

Released 2020-01-22

:rocket: (Enhancement)

• opentelemetry-core, opentelemetry-exporter-collector, opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin, opentelemetry-node, opentelemetry-plugin-dns, opentelemetry-plugin-document-load, opentelemetry-plugin-grpc, opentelemetry-plugin-http, opentelemetry-plugin-https, opentelemetry-plugin-ioredis, opentelemetry-plugin-mongodb, opentelemetry-plugin-mysql, opentelemetry-plugin-postgres, opentelemetry-plugin-redis, opentelemetry-plugin-xml-http-request, opentelemetry-shim-opentracing, opentelemetry-tracing, opentelemetry-types, opentelemetry-web
  • #582 Named Tracers / Tracer Registry
• opentelemetry-node, opentelemetry-plugin-postgres
  • #662 feat: add pg-pool to default list of instrumented plugins
  • #708 Simplify and speed up trace context parsing
• opentelemetry-metrics
  • #700 implement named meter

:sparkles: (Feature)

• opentelemetry-propagator-jaeger
  • #701 add jaeger http trace format
• opentelemetry-exporter-stackdriver-trace
  • #648 Stackdriver Trace exporter

:books: (Refine Doc)

• #673 chore(getting-started): Added a TypeScript version for Getting Started Guide

:bug: (Bug Fix)

• opentelemetry-plugin-ioredis
  • #714 fix: return module exports from ioredis