Chapter 93. OpenTelemetry

The configuration properties for the OpenTelemetry tracer are:

OpenTelemetryTracer otelTracer = new OpenTelemetryTracer();
// By default it uses the DefaultTracer, but you can override it with a specific OpenTelemetry Tracer implementation.
otelTracer.setTracer(...);
// And then initialize the context
otelTracer.init(camelContext);

OpenTelemetryTracer otelTracer = new OpenTelemetryTracer();
// By default it uses the DefaultTracer, but you can override it with a specific OpenTelemetry Tracer implementation.
otelTracer.setTracer(...);
// And then initialize the context
otelTracer.init(camelContext);

Add the camel-opentelemetry-starter dependency, and then turn on the OpenTracing by annotating the main class with @CamelOpenTelemetry.

The OpenTelemetryTracer is implicitly obtained from the camel context’s Registry, unless a OpenTelemetryTracer bean has been defined by the application.

Download the latest version of Java agent.

This package includes the instrumentation agent as well as instrumentations for all supported libraries and all available data exporters. The package provides a completely automatic, out-of-the-box experience.

Enable the instrumentation agent using the -javaagent flag to the JVM.

java -javaagent:path/to/opentelemetry-javaagent.jar \
     -jar myapp.jar

java -javaagent:path/to/opentelemetry-javaagent.jar \
     -jar myapp.jar

By default, the OpenTelemetry Java agent uses OTLP exporter configured to send data to OpenTelemetry collector at http://localhost:4317.

Configuration parameters are passed as Java system properties (-D flags) or as environment variables. See Configuring the agent and OpenTelemetry auto-configurationfor the full list of configuration items. For example:

java -javaagent:path/to/opentelemetry-javaagent.jar \
     -Dotel.service.name=your-service-name \
     -Dotel.traces.exporter=jaeger \
     -jar myapp.jar

java -javaagent:path/to/opentelemetry-javaagent.jar \
     -Dotel.service.name=your-service-name \
     -Dotel.traces.exporter=jaeger \
     -jar myapp.jar

Add the following dependency to your pom.xml for this component:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.camel.springboot</groupId>
  <artifactId>camel-opentelemetry-starter</artifactId>
  <version>3.20.1.redhat-00031</version>
  <!-- use the same version as your Camel core version -->
</dependency>

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.camel.springboot</groupId>
  <artifactId>camel-opentelemetry-starter</artifactId>
  <version>3.20.1.redhat-00031</version>
  <!-- use the same version as your Camel core version -->
</dependency>

The component supports 2 options, which are listed below.

When MDC Logging is enabled for the active Camel context, the Trace ID and Span ID are added and removed from the MDC for each route, where the keys are trace_id and span_id, respectively.