open-telemetry / open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation

JDBC - Add OTEL span attributes for number of rows returned/affected by query

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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Not directly a problem but I am trying to draw correlations between performance problems and number of rows returned by query

Describe the solution you'd like

Similar to the Micrometer implementation:
https://jdbc-observations.github.io/datasource-micrometer/docs/current/docs/html/#observability-spans
It would be awesome to see the attributes jdbc.row-affected jdbc.row-count on the db spans.

Describe alternatives you've considered

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Research direction

Start with the JDBC instrumentation and compare its span behavior with the linked Micrometer observability-spans implementation. Trace where query row counts become available, then add jdbc.row-affected and jdbc.row-count to database spans. Done means both attributes are emitted with the appropriate values for affected and returned rows.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
java
Domain
observability
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
48/100

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