opentelemetry-instrumentation-urllib3

OpenTelemetry urllib3 Instrumentation

This library allows tracing HTTP requests made by the urllib3 library.

Installation

pip install opentelemetry-instrumentation-urllib3

Configuration

Request/Response hooks

The urllib3 instrumentation supports extending tracing behavior with the help of request and response hooks. These are functions that are called back by the instrumentation right after a Span is created for a request and right before the span is finished processing a response respectively. The hooks can be configured as follows:

# `request` is an instance of urllib3.connectionpool.HTTPConnectionPool
def request_hook(span, request):
    pass

# `request` is an instance of urllib3.connectionpool.HTTPConnectionPool
# `response` is an instance of urllib3.response.HTTPResponse
def response_hook(span, request, response):
    pass

URLLib3Instrumentor.instrument(
    request_hook=request_hook, response_hook=response_hook)
)

Exclude lists

To exclude certain URLs from being tracked, set the environment variable OTEL_PYTHON_URLLIB3_EXCLUDED_URLS (or OTEL_PYTHON_EXCLUDED_URLS as fallback) with comma delimited regexes representing which URLs to exclude.

For example,

export OTEL_PYTHON_URLLIB3_EXCLUDED_URLS="client/.*/info,healthcheck"

will exclude requests such as https://site/client/123/info and https://site/xyz/healthcheck.

References

• OpenTelemetry urllib3 Instrumentation
• OpenTelemetry Project
• OpenTelemetry Python Examples