@opentelemetry/instrumentation-kafkajs

v0.3.0

OpenTelemetry instrumentation for `kafkajs` messaging client for Apache Kafka

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OpenTelemetry `kafkajs` Instrumentation for Node.js

This module provides automatic instrumentation for the kafkajs package, which may be loaded using the @opentelemetry/sdk-trace-node package and is included in the @opentelemetry/auto-instrumentations-node bundle.

If total installation size is not constrained, it is recommended to use the @opentelemetry/auto-instrumentations-node bundle with @opentelemetry/sdk-node for the most seamless instrumentation experience.

Compatible with OpenTelemetry JS API and SDK 1.0+.

Installation

npm install --save @opentelemetry/instrumentation-kafkajs

Supported versions

kafkajs versions >=0.1.0 <3

Usage

const { NodeTracerProvider } = require('@opentelemetry/sdk-trace-node');
const { KafkaJsInstrumentation } = require('@opentelemetry/instrumentation-kafkajs');
const { registerInstrumentations } = require('@opentelemetry/instrumentation');

const provider = new NodeTracerProvider();
provider.register();

registerInstrumentations({
  instrumentations: [
    new KafkaJsInstrumentation({
      // see below for available configuration
    }),
  ],
});

Instrumentation Options

You can set the following:

Options	Type	Description
`producerHook`	`KafkaProducerCustomAttributeFunction`	Function called before a producer message is sent. Allows for adding custom attributes to the span.
`consumerHook`	`KafkaConsumerCustomAttributeFunction`	Function called before a consumer message is processed. Allows for adding custom attributes to the span.

Semantic Conventions

This package uses @opentelemetry/semantic-conventions version 1.24+, which implements Semantic Convention Version 1.7.0

Attributes collected:

Attribute	Short Description
`messaging.system`	An identifier for the messaging system being used.
`messaging.destination`	The message destination name.
`messaging.operation`	A string identifying the kind of messaging operation.

Useful links

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