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opentelemetry-instrumentation-ruby_kafka
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The RubyKafka instrumentation is a community-maintained instrumentation for RubyKafka, a client library for Apache Kafka.
Install the gem using:
gem install opentelemetry-instrumentation-ruby_kafka
Or, if you use bundler, include opentelemetry-instrumentation-ruby_kafka in your Gemfile.
To use the instrumentation, call use with the name of the instrumentation:
OpenTelemetry::SDK.configure do |c|
c.use 'OpenTelemetry::Instrumentation::RubyKafka'
end
Alternatively, you can also call use_all to install all the available instrumentation.
OpenTelemetry::SDK.configure do |c|
c.use_all
end
Example usage can be seen in the ./example/ruby_kafka.rb file
The opentelemetry-instrumentation-ruby_kafka gem source is on github, along with related gems including opentelemetry-api and opentelemetry-sdk.
The OpenTelemetry Ruby gems are maintained by the OpenTelemetry Ruby special interest group (SIG). You can get involved by joining us on our GitHub Discussions, Slack Channel or attending our weekly meeting. See the meeting calendar for dates and times. For more information on this and other language SIGs, see the OpenTelemetry community page.
Tests in this package require a running instance of Kafka and Zookeeper, which are made available via docker-compose:
ruby-kafka $> docker-compose up -d kafka
Creating network "ruby_kafka_default" with the default driver
Creating ruby_kafka_zookeeper_1 ... done
Creating ruby_kafka_kafka_1 ... done
The run tests using rake
ruby-kafka $> bundle exec rake test
To stop the dependent services
ruby-kafka $> docker-compose down
The opentelemetry-instrumentation-ruby_kafka gem is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. See LICENSE for more information.
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