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Investigate Telemetry Tracing

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Description

tracing reported broken in https://github.com/interledger/rafiki/pull/3960

Separately, and not caused by anything in this PR: telemetry tracing looks broken on main any time ENABLE_TELEMETRY_TRACES=true. The backend has sdk-node 0.217.0 pulling v2-era otlp-transformer alongside the v1-era exporter-trace-otlp-grpc / exporter-metrics-otlp-grpc, and trace export throws on clashing protobufjs globals. Bumping the two grpc exporters to ^0.221.0 fixes that crash but trades it for another, since v1's Span has no instrumentationScope field and the v2-era serializer requires it. Nothing catches this today because service.test.ts mocks the otel packages wholesale and CI never enables telemetry. Worth a look by whoever owns telemetry.

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Research direction

Start with the backend telemetry dependencies and service.test.ts, then reproduce tracing with ENABLE_TELEMETRY_TRACES=true instead of the current wholesale OpenTelemetry mocks. Trace export should work without protobuf or instrumentationScope errors, and tests should cover the enabled telemetry path.

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Tech stack
typescript
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observability
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
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Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
55/100

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