OpenTelemetry Python

The Python OpenTelemetry client.

Installation

This repository includes multiple installable packages. The opentelemetry-api package includes abstract classes and no-op implementations that comprise the OpenTelemetry API following the specification. The opentelemetry-sdk package is the reference implementation of the API.

Libraries that produce telemetry data should only depend on opentelemetry-api, and defer the choice of the SDK to the application developer. Applications may depend on opentelemetry-sdk or another package that implements the API.

Please note that this library is currently in alpha, and shouldn't be used in production environments.

The API and SDK packages are available on PyPI, and can installed via pip:

pip install opentelemetry-api
pip install opentelemetry-sdk

The ext/ directory includes OpenTelemetry integration packages, which can be installed separately as:

pip install opentelemetry-ext-{integration}

To install the development versions of these packages instead, clone or fork this repo and do an editable install:

pip install -e ./opentelemetry-api
pip install -e ./opentelemetry-sdk
pip install -e ./ext/opentelemetry-ext-{integration}

Quick Start

Tracing

from opentelemetry import trace
from opentelemetry.context import Context
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace import Tracer
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import ConsoleSpanExporter
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import SimpleExportSpanProcessor

trace.set_preferred_tracer_implementation(lambda T: Tracer())
tracer = trace.tracer()
tracer.add_span_processor(
    SimpleExportSpanProcessor(ConsoleSpanExporter())
)
with tracer.start_as_current_span('foo'):
    with tracer.start_as_current_span('bar'):
        with tracer.start_as_current_span('baz'):
            print(Context)

Metrics

from opentelemetry import metrics
from opentelemetry.sdk.metrics import Counter, Meter
from opentelemetry.sdk.metrics.export import ConsoleMetricsExporter

metrics.set_preferred_meter_implementation(lambda T: Meter())
meter = metrics.meter()
exporter = ConsoleMetricsExporter()

counter = meter.create_metric(
    "available memory",
    "available memory",
    "bytes",
    int,
    Counter,
    ("environment",),
)

label_values = ("staging",)
counter_handle = counter.get_handle(label_values)
counter_handle.add(100)

exporter.export([(counter, label_values)])
exporter.shutdown()

See the API documentation for more detail, and the opentelemetry-example-app for a complete example.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md

We meet weekly on Thursday at 8AM PT. The meeting is subject to change depending on contributors' availability. Check the OpenTelemetry community calendar for specific dates.

Meetings take place via Zoom video conference.

Meeting notes are available as a public Google doc. For edit access, get in touch on Gitter.

Approvers (@open-telemetry/python-approvers):

• Carlos Alberto Cortez, LightStep
• Christian Neumüller, Dynatrace
• Leighton Chen, Microsoft
• Yusuke Tsutsumi, Zillow Group

Find more about the approver role in community repository.

Maintainers (@open-telemetry/python-maintainers):

• Chris Kleinknecht, Google
• Reiley Yang, Microsoft

Find more about the maintainer role in community repository.

Release Schedule

OpenTelemetry Python is under active development.

The library is not yet generally available, and releases aren't guaranteed to conform to a specific version of the specification. Future releases will not attempt to maintain backwards compatibility with previous releases.

The v0.1 alpha release includes:

• Tracing API
• Tracing SDK
• Metrics API
• Metrics SDK (Partial)
• W3C Trace Context Propagation
• B3 Context Propagation
• HTTP Integrations

The v0.2 alpha release includes:

• OpenTracing Bridge
• Jaeger Trace Exporter
• Trace Sampling

See the project milestones for details on upcoming releases. The dates and features described here are estimates, and subject to change.

Future releases targets include:

Component	Version	Target Date
Zipkin Trace Exporter	Alpha v0.3	November 15 2019
W3C Correlation Context Propagation	Alpha v0.3	November 15 2019
Support for Tags/Baggage	Alpha v0.3	November 15 2019
Metrics Aggregation	Alpha v0.3	November 15 2019
gRPC Integrations	Alpha v0.3	November 15 2019
Prometheus Metrics Exporter	Alpha v0.3	November 15 2019

Component	Version	Target Date
OpenCensus Bridge	Alpha v0.4	December 31 2019
Metrics SDK (Complete)	Alpha v0.4	December 31 2019