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Michael Manganiello d4ad8f57be Add support for generic OTEL_PYTHON_EXCLUDED_URLS variable (#790)
* Add support for generic OTEL_PYTHON_EXCLUDED_URLS variable

Use `OTEL_PYTHON_EXCLUDED_URLS` environment variable as a fallback of
`OTEL_PYTHON_{instrumentation}_EXCLUDED_URLS`.

* Only use generic variable when instrumentation-specific is not set

* Change wording on docs

Co-authored-by: Leighton Chen <lechen@microsoft.com>
2021-11-10 22:44:02 +00:00

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OpenTelemetry Flask Tracing
===========================
|pypi|
.. |pypi| image:: https://badge.fury.io/py/opentelemetry-instrumentation-flask.svg
:target: https://pypi.org/project/opentelemetry-instrumentation-flask/
This library builds on the OpenTelemetry WSGI middleware to track web requests
in Flask applications.
Installation
------------
::
pip install opentelemetry-instrumentation-flask
Configuration
-------------
Exclude lists
*************
To exclude certain URLs from being tracked, set the environment variable ``OTEL_PYTHON_FLASK_EXCLUDED_URLS``
(or ``OTEL_PYTHON_EXCLUDED_URLS`` as fallback) with comma delimited regexes representing which URLs to exclude.
For example,
::
export OTEL_PYTHON_FLASK_EXCLUDED_URLS="client/.*/info,healthcheck"
will exclude requests such as ``https://site/client/123/info`` and ``https://site/xyz/healthcheck``.
You can also pass the comma delimited regexes to the ``instrument_app`` method directly:
.. code-block:: python
FlaskInstrumentor().instrument_app(app, excluded_urls="client/.*/info,healthcheck")
Request/Response hooks
**********************
Utilize request/reponse hooks to execute custom logic to be performed before/after performing a request. Environ is an instance of WSGIEnvironment (flask.request.environ).
Response_headers is a list of key-value (tuples) representing the response headers returned from the response.
.. code-block:: python
def request_hook(span: Span, environ: WSGIEnvironment):
if span and span.is_recording():
span.set_attribute("custom_user_attribute_from_request_hook", "some-value")
def response_hook(span: Span, status: str, response_headers: List):
if span and span.is_recording():
span.set_attribute("custom_user_attribute_from_response_hook", "some-value")
FlaskInstrumentation().instrument(request_hook=request_hook, response_hook=response_hook)
Flask Request object reference: https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/2.0.x/api/#flask.Request
References
----------
* `OpenTelemetry Flask Instrumentation <https://opentelemetry-python-contrib.readthedocs.io/en/stable/instrumentation/flask/flask.html>`_
* `OpenTelemetry Project <https://opentelemetry.io/>`_
* `OpenTelemetry Python Examples <https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/tree/main/docs/examples>`_