@opentelemetry/instrumentation-http

OpenTelemetry HTTP and HTTPS Instrumentation for Node.js

Note: This is an experimental package under active development. New releases may include breaking changes.

This module provides automatic instrumentation for http and https.

For automatic instrumentation see the @opentelemetry/sdk-trace-node package.

Installation

npm install --save @opentelemetry/instrumentation-http

Supported Versions

• Nodejs >=14

Usage

OpenTelemetry HTTP Instrumentation allows the user to automatically collect trace data and export them to their backend of choice, to give observability to distributed systems.

To load a specific instrumentation (HTTP in this case), specify it in the Node Tracer's configuration.

const { HttpInstrumentation } = require('@opentelemetry/instrumentation-http');
const {
  ConsoleSpanExporter,
  NodeTracerProvider,
  SimpleSpanProcessor,
} = require('@opentelemetry/sdk-trace-node');
const { registerInstrumentations } = require('@opentelemetry/instrumentation');

const provider = new NodeTracerProvider();

provider.addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor(new ConsoleSpanExporter()));
provider.register();

registerInstrumentations({
  instrumentations: [new HttpInstrumentation()],
});

See examples/http for a short example.

Http instrumentation Options

Http instrumentation has few options available to choose from. You can set the following:

Options	Type	Description
applyCustomAttributesOnSpan	HttpCustomAttributeFunction	Function for adding custom attributes
requestHook	HttpRequestCustomAttributeFunction	Function for adding custom attributes before request is handled
responseHook	HttpResponseCustomAttributeFunction	Function for adding custom attributes before response is handled
startIncomingSpanHook	StartIncomingSpanCustomAttributeFunction	Function for adding custom attributes before a span is started in incomingRequest
startOutgoingSpanHook	StartOutgoingSpanCustomAttributeFunction	Function for adding custom attributes before a span is started in outgoingRequest
ignoreIncomingRequestHook	IgnoreIncomingRequestFunction	Http instrumentation will not trace all incoming requests that matched with custom function
ignoreOutgoingRequestHook	IgnoreOutgoingRequestFunction	Http instrumentation will not trace all outgoing requests that matched with custom function
serverName	string	The primary server name of the matched virtual host.
requireParentforOutgoingSpans	Boolean	Require that is a parent span to create new span for outgoing requests.
requireParentforIncomingSpans	Boolean	Require that is a parent span to create new span for incoming requests.
headersToSpanAttributes	object	List of case insensitive HTTP headers to convert to span attributes. Client (outgoing requests, incoming responses) and server (incoming requests, outgoing responses) headers will be converted to span attributes in the form of http.{request|response}.header.header_name, e.g. http.response.header.content_length

The following options are deprecated:

Options	Type	Description
ignoreIncomingPaths	IgnoreMatcher[]	Http instrumentation will not trace all incoming requests that match paths

Semantic Conventions

This package uses @opentelemetry/semantic-conventions version 1.22+, which implements Semantic Convention Version 1.7.0

Attributes collected:

Attribute	Short Description
ip_tcp	Transport protocol used
ip_udp	Transport protocol used
http.client_ip	The IP address of the original client behind all proxies, if known
http.flavor	Kind of HTTP protocol used
http.host	The value of the HTTP host header
http.method	HTTP request method
http.request_content_length	The size of the request payload body in bytes
http.request_content_length_uncompressed	The size of the uncompressed request payload body after transport decoding
http.response_content_length	The size of the response payload body in bytes
http.response_content_length_uncompressed	The size of the uncompressed response payload body after transport decoding
http.route	The matched route (path template).
http.scheme	The URI scheme identifying the used protocol
http.server_name	The primary server name of the matched virtual host
http.status_code	HTTP response status code
http.target	The full request target as passed in a HTTP request line or equivalent
http.url	Full HTTP request URL in the form scheme://host[:port]/path?query[#fragment]
http.user_agent	Value of the HTTP User-Agent header sent by the client
net.host.ip	Like net.peer.ip but for the host IP. Useful in case of a multi-IP host
net.host.name	Local hostname or similar
net.host.port	Like net.peer.port but for the host port
net.peer.ip.	Remote address of the peer (dotted decimal for IPv4 or RFC5952 for IPv6)
net.peer.name	Remote hostname or similar
net.peer.port	Remote port number
net.transport	Transport protocol used

Useful links

• For more information on OpenTelemetry, visit: https://opentelemetry.io/
• For more about OpenTelemetry JavaScript: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js
• For help or feedback on this project, join us in GitHub Discussions

License

Apache 2.0 - See LICENSE for more information.