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Valkey Instrumentation
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Description
Is your feature request related to a problem?
Hi, I'm wondering if there are any planned support for instrumenting Valkey cache? The existing Redis instrumentation does not show traces for this package https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey-py
Describe the solution you'd like
I would like to be able to use otel instrumentation to get Valkey db traces
Describe alternatives you've considered
No response
Additional Context
No response
Would you like to implement a fix?
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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 by reading the existing Redis instrumentation and the valkey-py package linked in the issue to understand why Redis instrumentation does not produce traces for Valkey. Done means OpenTelemetry instrumentation supports Valkey database traces and includes appropriate validation against the package.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- databases, observability-sre
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100