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OpenTracing Tutorial - Python

Installing

These tutorials can be followed using any following tracing backends:

• Signoz
• Tempo with Grafana
• Jaeger

Refer to this guide to learn how to set up and run any of the above tracing backends.

This repository uses pip to manage dependencies. To install all dependencies, run:

• Navigate to the tutorial directory:

  cd opentelemetry-tutorial/python
  

• Activate your virtual environment.
• Install the required dependencies:

  pip install -r requirements.txt
  

All subsequent commands in the tutorials should be executed relative to this python directory.

Lessons

• Lesson 01 - Hello World
  • Instantiate a Tracer
  • Create a simple trace
  • Annotate the trace
• Lesson 02 - Context and Tracing Functions
  • Trace individual functions
  • Combine multiple spans into a single trace
  • Propagate the in-process context
• Lesson 03 - Tracing RPC Requests
  • Trace a transaction across more than one microservice
  • Pass the context between processes using Inject and Extract
  • Apply OpenTracing-recommended tags
• Lesson 04 - Baggage
  • Understand distributed context propagation
  • Use baggage to pass data through the call graph