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otelgrpc: Feature request: Track end-user IPs on gRPC requests #811

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ahmetb opened this issue Jun 2, 2021 · 1 comment
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otelgrpc: Feature request: Track end-user IPs on gRPC requests #811

ahmetb opened this issue Jun 2, 2021 · 1 comment
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area: instrumentation Related to an instrumentation package enhancement New feature or request instrumentation: otelgrpc

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ahmetb commented Jun 2, 2021 •
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Currently otelgrpc package provides labels like:

key value
net.peer.port 54566
net.peer.ip 169.254.8.129

This is great but it is not useful in a cloud environment where the immediate IPv4 connections are coming from load balancers or API gateways and the end user's IP address is not captured in TCP peer info.

I am proposing that otelgrpc package also labels end-client IP address by looking at HTTP header (gRPC metadata) if it is available on RPC context through x-forwarded-for and/or x-real-ip header (whichever exists).

This is useful on many Kubernetes ingress implementations, CloudFlare as well as platforms like Google Cloud Run.

I am not sure what are the semconv names for such things, or if there is a standard name is allocated. otelmux package for example uses http.client_ip for this purpose.
@ahmetb ahmetb added area: instrumentation Related to an instrumentation package enhancement New feature or request release:after-ga labels Jun 2, 2021
@ahmetb ahmetb changed the title otelgrpc: Feature requets: Track end-user IPs in net.peer otelgrpc: Feature requets: Track end-user IPs on gRPC requests Jun 2, 2021
@ahmetb ahmetb changed the title otelgrpc: Feature requets: Track end-user IPs on gRPC requests otelgrpc: Feature request: Track end-user IPs on gRPC requests Jun 2, 2021
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ahmetb commented Jun 2, 2021

I appreciate if someone can clear the labels, I should not have used the issue template.

plantfansam referenced this issue in plantfansam/opentelemetry-go-contrib Mar 18, 2022
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Metrics instrumentation version (#811)
288a3dd 
* Support instrumentation library in metrics

* Update stdout exporter to display instrumentation info

* Fix tests that use the STDOUT exporter

* Refactor to keep SDK out of API

* Update global Meter and test Meter version

* Revert unneeded import syntax change

* Fix Unit comment

* Update comments

* Update comment

* Revert no-op change to import
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