[auto-instrumentations-node] - nextjs standalone mode does not include auto-instrumentations-node dependency

[markmacumber]

Hello eveyone,

I have been trying to setup some instrumentation on my nextjs web app and have been following the documentation on the Grafana website: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-applications/application-observability/instrument/node/

I have installed the packages (api and auto-instrumentations-node) - setup the ENV varaibles, and then tried to build and package my application for deployment.

However, my build command for nextjs runs in 'standalone' mode (https://nextjs.org/docs/pages/api-reference/next-config-js/output#automatically-copying-traced-files) so it can be packaged and deployed into my cloud environment.

The issue is that the node_modules do not include the above packages, so the command --require @opentelemetry/auto-instrumentations-node/register fails with the missing dependency.

I realise that the point of the auto-instrumentations-node library is to instrument without code changes (which is my desire), but how can I ensure that these packages are installed with the build?

Thanks