The OpenTelemetry community announced the beta release of the OpenTelemetry Go Auto-Instrumentation project.
This milestone brings OpenTelemetry closer to making observability simple, accessible, and effective for Go applications.
OpenTelemetry Go Auto-Instrumentation allows developers to collect traces from their Go applications without requiring manual code modifications or rebuilding binaries. By dynamically instrumenting applications at runtime using eBPF, this project lowers the barrier to adopting observability best practices and provides deep insights into your application’s behavior.
The beta release offers foundational support for automatic instrumentation with these key features:
- HTTP server instrumentation: Automatically trace incoming and outgoing HTTP requests with trace context propagation when using the net/http package.
- Database instrumentation: Instrument database queries and connections that use the database/sql package.
- gRPC instrumentation: Easily collect telemetry data from gRPC clients and servers.
- Kafka-go instrumentation: Monitor and trace Kafka messaging using the kafka-go package.
- Extensible with OpenTelemetry’s Trace API: Seamlessly extend auto-instrumentation with custom spans using the OpenTelemetry Go Trace API.
- Configuration using environment variables: Simplify configuration with environment-based settings, reducing the need for code changes.
- Semantic convention compliance: Produced telemetry complies with the latest OpenTelemetry semantic conventions ensuring compatibility with the OTel ecosystem.
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