opensafely-core / opensafely-core/sysadmin
Forward otel traces to job-server or similar
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Description
We can use the jaeger exporter to forward otel json encoded trace data over HTTP to job-server.
e.g.
exporters:
jaeger:
endpoint: "http://localhost:14268/api/traces"
protocol: "http"
# The format of the payload to send. Can be "json" or "protobuf".
# Default is "protobuf".
format: "json"
Note: found via chatGPT.
This should be easy for job-server to parse and store somewhere.
This solves two limitations of using honeycomb:
- we can retain this data longer than Honeycomb's two month retention period.
- we can surface this data to users (Honeycomb API for this is behind Enterprise tier, and can only query last 7 days anyway)
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Research direction
Start with the Jaeger exporter configuration shown in the issue and review the job-server entry point that would receive it. Decide where JSON trace data should be parsed, stored, and surfaced; done means a defined end-to-end path that retains the traces and makes them available to users.
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Assessment
- Domain
- backend, observability
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100