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FR: adding OpenTelemetry instrumentation package #908
Description
Activity
Thank you for using the SDK, and thank you for the proposal in this issue.
We agree that tracing is important for modern observability. However, calls made by line-bot-sdk-python are essentially performed via standard HTTP clients. In most cases, using existing OpenTelemetry instrumentations such as opentelemetry-instrumentation-requests or opentelemetry-instrumentation-urllib3 already allows tracing of API calls made through this SDK.
Providing an official, SDK-specific OpenTelemetry instrumentation would require ongoing maintenance effort, including tracking OpenTelemetry API/SDK compatibility, defining semantic conventions, and maintaining tests. For this reason, we’re sorry to say that we do not currently have plans to provide a dedicated instrumentation package.
Thank you for your understanding.
Reacted by SiriusKoan
Problem
Tracing is critical to modern monitoring, and many popular packages build their own OpenTelemetry instrumentation to provide tracing.
However, there seems no similar solution for line-bot-sdk-python now, and developers have to do manual instrumentation or use existing instrumentation from other related packages, such as
opentelemetry-instrumentation-flask(if website hosted with Flask) andopentelemetry-instrumentation-requests(if making HTTP requests manually).Solution
Allowing tracing the Line API made from this SDK by simply installing a package named
opentelemetry-instrumentation-<a good name for line-bot-sdk-python>.