open-telemetry / open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib
Out of the box support for Gunicorn
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Description
Setting up OpenTelemetry needs additional manual steps when working with gunicorn as documented here: https://opentelemetry-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples/fork-process-model/README.html#gunicorn-post-fork-hook
This should not be required if a user is invokes the opentelemetry-instrument command to auto-instrument their gunicorn based service.
Hint: pre instrumentation hook might be helpful to implement this.
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 fork-process-model documentation, then inspect the opentelemetry-instrument entry point and its pre-instrumentation hook support. Determine how Gunicorn services are launched and verify that invoking opentelemetry-instrument handles the fork model without manual post-fork configuration.
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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
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100