OpenTelemetry Flask Tracing
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This library builds on the OpenTelemetry WSGI middleware to track web requests
in Flask applications.
Installation
------------
::
pip install opentelemetry-instrumentation-flask
Configuration
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Exclude lists
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To exclude certain URLs from being tracked, set the environment variable ``OTEL_PYTHON_FLASK_EXCLUDED_URLS`` 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``.
References
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* `OpenTelemetry Flask Instrumentation <https://opentelemetry-python-contrib.readthedocs.io/en/stable/instrumentation/flask/flask.html>`_
* `OpenTelemetry Project <https://opentelemetry.io/>`_
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