Disable tracing for a specific Java Class or endpoint?

[stevensim226]

Hi,
I'm currently using OpenTelemetry to trace HTTP calls for microservices in my Kubernetes cluster, but unfortunately due to k8s' healthcheck system, every 10 seconds an HTTP call is made into the /ping endpoint and it floods my storage for the tracing (I'm using ElasticSearch)

I saw on the manual instrumentation that there is a feature called suppress class, I tried it w/ auto-instrumentation but it doesn't work (I don't think it's supposed to work either)

Is there a feature similar that exists to what I needed?

[jkwatson]

Transferring this discussion to the opentelemetry-java-instrumentation repository, as it applied to instrumentation, not to the API or SDK.

[ghost]

@stevensim226 the configuration for suppressing particular classes is meant for automatic instrumentation. That is if the class implementing /ping endpoint is added to otel.javaagent.exclude-classes it won't be automatically instrumented and won't generate a (server) span.

[trask]

In addition to @kubawach's suggestion, it's worth following #1060 which is feature request for ability to exclude health checks