open-telemetry / open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python

Django gunicorn auto instrumentation

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Description

Currently, Django autoinstrumentation supports flask and uWSGI servers.
However, when running django app using gunicorn server, the autoinstrumentation does not work.

This is the command I am trying to run.

opentelemetry-instrument --trace-exporter zipkin_json python3.8 gunicorn ${DJANGO_WSGI_MODULE}:application --name ${NAME} --bind=127.0.0.1:80 --preload
The app starts fine, but doesn't report any traces to zipkin.

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Research direction

Start by reproducing the reported command with Django, Gunicorn, and the Zipkin exporter, then compare the existing Flask and uWSGI autoinstrumentation paths. Done means the same Gunicorn invocation starts successfully and reports Django traces to Zipkin; no specific files or tests are named in the issue.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
backend, observability
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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