topic Re: Dynatrace End-To-Tracing with OpenTelemetry in Open Q&A

Dynatrace End-To-Tracing with OpenTelemetry

Asifali — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 07:36:04 GMT

Hello,

I am exploring Distributed Tracing in Dynatrace (OpenTelemetry/OneAgent/Java) to stitch and visualize end-to-end transactions. I have 2 services - Service A and Service B. Service A sends a message to Service B. I can see open telemetry data individually for Service A and Service B but they are not stitched together in Dynatrace even though Context Propagation is enabled and it is happening (I can debug the application locally and see it being received in Service B correctly). I have configured all the settings as per the documentation but Dynatrace is not able to relate Service A and Service B. (Note - Service A sends message to Service B using Nats Messaging). Any help is highly appreciated. Thank you.

Re: Dynatrace End-To-Tracing with OpenTelemetry

bradley_danyo — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:15:16 GMT

Hi Asifali,

As far as I know, messages need to be stitched together by creating spans manually/properly pass the OTel context from span to span to ensure they use the correct span ID. Messaging systems in OTel rely heavily on span links, which currently aren't supported in Dynatrace. This is something currently being worked on, but it's open source so there isn't really an ETA. I've included some documentation that maybe some use to you. Hopefully this helps a bit.

https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/shortlink/opent-java

https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/extend-dynatrace/opentelemetry/opentelemetry-traces/opentelemetry-ingest/opent-java-auto

https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/shortlink/opentelemetry-context-propagation

https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/shortlink/opentelemetry-instrumentation

Re: Dynatrace End-To-Tracing with OpenTelemetry

techean — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 05:12:23 GMT

WIP - OpenTelemetry traces with OneAgent | Dynatrace Docs

Dynatrace provides observability for ingested OpenTelemetry traces | Dynatrace news

Extension - OpenTelemetry Tracing | Dynatrace Hub

Re: Dynatrace End-To-Tracing with OpenTelemetry

Asifali — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 18:43:16 GMT

Thank you for the response, problem is resolved after setting the context propagation rules.

Re: Dynatrace End-To-Tracing with OpenTelemetry

Asifali — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 18:44:00 GMT

Thank you for the response, setting context propagation rule solved the problem