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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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

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