otel-py

Note: This repository is archived since Telescope is no longer supported

This package provides OpenTelemetry-compliant tracing to Python applications for the collection of distributed tracing and performance metrics in Cisco Telescope.

Contents

• Installation
  • Install Packages
  • Install Dependencies
  • Library initialization
  • OpenTelemetry Collector Configuration
  • Existing OpenTelemetry Instrumentation
• Supported Runtimes
• Supported Libraries
• Configuration
• Getting Help
• Opening Issues
• License

Installation

Requirements

Python >=3.8, <4.0 pip3 >= 22.0

Install packages

To install Cisco OpenTelemetry Distribution simply run:

pip install cisco-telescope

Full instrumentation support

To install the required dependencies for all relevant supported instrumentation frameworks run:

telescope-bootstrap

Library initialization

Cisco OpenTelemetry Distribution is activated and instruments the supported libraries once the tracing.init() has returned.

To initialize the library, you'll need a cisco-token, which is taken from your Account tab on the Telescope console Settings page.

from cisco_telescope import tracing

tracing.init(
  service_name="<your-service-name>",
  cisco_token="<your-cisco-token>"
)

OpenTelemetry Collector Configuration

By default, Cisco OpenTelemetry Distribution exports data directly to Cisco Telescope's infrastructure backend. Existing OpenTelemetery Collector is supported, the following configuration can be applied

Configure custom trace exporter

Cisco OpenTelemetry Distribution supports the configuration of multiple custom exporters. Note that you will need to handle your exporter authorization. Example for creating OtlpGrpc Span exporter to local OpenTelemetry collector:

from cisco_telescope import tracing, options

tracing.init(
  service_name="<your-service-name>",
  exporters=[
    options.ExporterOptions(
      exporter_type="otlp-grpc",
      collector_endpoint="grpc://localhost:4317"
    ),
  ]
)

Configure custom OpenTelemetry collector to export trace data to Cisco Telescope's external collector.

collector.yaml ...

exporters:
  otlphttp:
    traces_endpoint: https://production.cisco-udp.com/trace-collector
    headers:
      authorization: Bearer <Your Telescope Token>
    compression: gzip


service:
  pipelines:
    traces:
      exporters: [otlphttp]

Existing OpenTelemetry Instrumentation

Notice: Only relevant if interested in streaming existing OpenTelemetry workloads. Cisco Telescope. supports native OpenTelemetery traces.

from opentelemetry import trace
from opentelemetry.sdk.resources import Resource
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace import TracerProvider
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import BatchSpanProcessor

from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.http.trace_exporter import (
    OTLPSpanExporter as OTLPHTTPExporter,
)

provider = TracerProvider(resource=Resource.create())
trace.set_tracer_provider(provider)

http_exporter = OTLPHTTPExporter(
  endpoint="https://production.cisco-udp.com/trace-collector",
  headers= {
    "authorization": "Bearer <Your Telescope Token>",
  },
)

processor = BatchSpanProcessor(http_exporter)
provider.add_span_processor(processor)

Supported Runtimes

Cisco OpenTelemetry Distribution supports Python 3.6+

Supported Libraries

Cisco OpenTelemetry Python Distribution is extending Native OpenTelemetry, supported libraries available here.

Cisco OpenTelemetry Python Distribution provides out-of-the-box instrumentation (tracing) and advanced payload collections for many popular frameworks and libraries.

Library	Extended Support Version
requests	Fully supported
aiohttp	Fully supported
grpc	Client/Server Unary support

Configuration

Advanced options can be configured as a parameter to the init() method:

Parameter	Env	Type	Default	Description
cisco_token	CISCO_TOKEN	string	-	Cisco account token
service_name	OTEL_SERVICE_NAME	string	application	Application name that will be set for traces
debug	CISCO_DEBUG	string	False	Debug logs
payloads_enabled	CISCO_PAYLOADS_ENABLED	string	True	Debug logs

Exporter options

Parameter	Env	Type	Default	Description
collector_endpoint	OTEL_COLLECTOR_ENDPOINT	string	https://production.cisco-udp.com/trace-collector	The address of the trace collector to send traces to
type	OTEL_EXPORTER_TYPE	string	otlp-http	The exporter type to use (Currently only otlp-http is supported). Multiple exporter option available via init function see example below

Getting Help

If you have any issue around using the library or the product, please don't hesitate to:

• Use the documentation.
• Use the help widget inside the product.
• Open an issue in GitHub.

License

Provided under the Apache 2.0. See LICENSE for details.

Copyright 2022, Cisco