feat(otel): Do not sample options and head requests

packages/opentelemetry/src/sampler.ts

@@ -8,13 +8,14 @@ import type { Client, SpanAttributes } from '@sentry/types';
 import { logger } from '@sentry/utils';
 import { SENTRY_TRACE_STATE_SAMPLED_NOT_RECORDING } from './constants';
 
+import { SemanticAttributes } from '@opentelemetry/semantic-conventions';
 import { DEBUG_BUILD } from './debug-build';
 import { getPropagationContextFromSpan } from './propagator';
 import { getSamplingDecision } from './utils/getSamplingDecision';
 import { setIsSetup } from './utils/setupCheck';
 
 /**
- * A custom OTEL sampler that uses Sentry sampling rates to make it's decision
+ * A custom OTEL sampler that uses Sentry sampling rates to make its decision
  */
 export class SentrySampler implements Sampler {
   private _client: Client;
@@ -72,6 +73,16 @@ export class SentrySampler implements Sampler {
       [SEMANTIC_ATTRIBUTE_SENTRY_SAMPLE_RATE]: sampleRate,
     };
 
+    const method = `${spanAttributes[SemanticAttributes.HTTP_METHOD]}`.toUpperCase();
+    if (method === 'OPTIONS' || method === 'HEAD') {
+      DEBUG_BUILD && logger.log(`[Tracing] Not sampling span because HTTP method is '${method}' for ${spanName}`);
+      return {
+        decision: SamplingDecision.NOT_RECORD,
+        attributes,
+        traceState: traceState.set(SENTRY_TRACE_STATE_SAMPLED_NOT_RECORDING, '1'),
+      };
+    }
+
     if (!sampled) {
       return {
         decision: SamplingDecision.NOT_RECORD,

packages/opentelemetry/test/trace.test.ts

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import {
 import type { Event, Scope } from '@sentry/types';
 import { makeTraceState } from '../src/propagator';
 
+import { SemanticAttributes } from '@opentelemetry/semantic-conventions';
 import { continueTrace, startInactiveSpan, startSpan, startSpanManual } from '../src/trace';
 import type { AbstractSpan } from '../src/types';
 import { getDynamicSamplingContextFromSpan } from '../src/utils/dynamicSamplingContext';
@@ -1358,6 +1359,76 @@ describe('trace (sampling)', () => {
   });
 });
 
+describe('HTTP methods (sampling)', () => {
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    mockSdkInit({ enableTracing: true });
+  });
+
+  afterEach(() => {
+    cleanupOtel();
+  });
+
+  it('does sample when HTTP method is other than OPTIONS or HEAD', () => {
+    const spanGET = startSpanManual(
+      { name: 'test span', attributes: { [SemanticAttributes.HTTP_METHOD]: 'GET' } },
+      span => {
+        return span;
+      },
+    );
+    expect(spanIsSampled(spanGET)).toBe(true);
+    expect(getSamplingDecision(spanGET.spanContext())).toBe(true);
+
+    const spanPOST = startSpanManual(
+      { name: 'test span', attributes: { [SemanticAttributes.HTTP_METHOD]: 'POST' } },
+      span => {
+        return span;
+      },
+    );
+    expect(spanIsSampled(spanPOST)).toBe(true);
+    expect(getSamplingDecision(spanPOST.spanContext())).toBe(true);
+
+    const spanPUT = startSpanManual(
+      { name: 'test span', attributes: { [SemanticAttributes.HTTP_METHOD]: 'PUT' } },
+      span => {
+        return span;
+      },
+    );
+    expect(spanIsSampled(spanPUT)).toBe(true);
+    expect(getSamplingDecision(spanPUT.spanContext())).toBe(true);
+
+    const spanDELETE = startSpanManual(
+      { name: 'test span', attributes: { [SemanticAttributes.HTTP_METHOD]: 'DELETE' } },
+      span => {
+        return span;
+      },
+    );
+    expect(spanIsSampled(spanDELETE)).toBe(true);
+    expect(getSamplingDecision(spanDELETE.spanContext())).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('does not sample when HTTP method is OPTIONS', () => {
+    const span = startSpanManual(
+      { name: 'test span', attributes: { [SemanticAttributes.HTTP_METHOD]: 'OPTIONS' } },
+      span => {
+        return span;
+      },
+    );
+    expect(spanIsSampled(span)).toBe(false);
+    expect(getSamplingDecision(span.spanContext())).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it('does not sample when HTTP method is HEAD', () => {
+    const span = startSpanManual(
+      { name: 'test span', attributes: { [SemanticAttributes.HTTP_METHOD]: 'HEAD' } },
+      span => {
+        return span;
+      },
+    );
+    expect(spanIsSampled(span)).toBe(false);
+    expect(getSamplingDecision(span.spanContext())).toBe(false);
+  });
+});
+
 describe('continueTrace', () => {
   beforeEach(() => {
     mockSdkInit({ enableTracing: true });