open-telemetry / open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp-contrib
Add the option to suppress some traces
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Description
At the moment all the calls done to status by the health endpoint ends up into traces but are not interesting.
I think there should be a way to exclude some locations of the web server from the trace collecting
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First steps
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- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start at the health endpoint and trace collection path to identify how status calls become spans. Define how web-server locations can be excluded, then verify that excluded health calls no longer produce traces while other locations still do.
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Assessment
- Domain
- observability
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100