open-telemetry / open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib
Implement HTTP request retries and redirects for instrumentations
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enhancement
feature-request
HTTP
instrumentation
specification
- Dominant language
- Python
- Stars
- 1.1k
- Forks
- 1.1k
- Avg merge
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Description
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- 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 with the linked HTTP spans documentation, especially its section on request retries and redirects, and inspect the instrumentation packages to determine the affected entry points. Done means the relevant Python instrumentations represent retries and redirects according to that specification, with coverage for the supported cases.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- backend, observability-sre
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100