OpenTelemetry Django Tracing
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This library allows tracing requests for Django applications.

Installation
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::

    pip install opentelemetry-instrumentation-django

Configuration
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Exclude lists
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To exclude certain URLs from being tracked, set the environment variable ``OTEL_PYTHON_DJANGO_EXCLUDED_URLS`` with comma delimited regexes representing which URLs to exclude.

For example,

::

    export OTEL_PYTHON_DJANGO_EXCLUDED_URLS="client/.*/info,healthcheck"

will exclude requests such as ``https://site/client/123/info`` and ``https://site/xyz/healthcheck``.

Request attributes
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To extract certain attributes from Django's request object and use them as span attributes, set the environment variable ``OTEL_PYTHON_DJANGO_TRACED_REQUEST_ATTRS`` to a comma
delimited list of request attribute names. 

For example,

::

    export OTEL_PYTHON_DJANGO_TRACED_REQUEST_ATTRS='path_info,content_type'

will extract path_info and content_type attributes from every traced request and add them as span attritbues.

Django Request object reference: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/ref/request-response/#attributes

References
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* `Django <https://www.djangoproject.com/>`_
* `OpenTelemetry Instrumentation for Django <https://opentelemetry-python-contrib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/instrumentation/django/django.html>`_
* `OpenTelemetry Project <https://opentelemetry.io/>`_
