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