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community.general.elastic – Create distributed traces for each Ansible task in Elastic APM

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.3).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.elastic.

New in version 3.8.0: of community.general

Synopsis

• This callback creates distributed traces for each Ansible task in Elastic APM.

• You can configure the plugin with environment variables.

• See https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/apm/agent/python/current/configuration.html.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the local controller node that executes this callback.

• elastic-apm (Python library)

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
apm_api_key string	Use the APM API key Configuration: Environment variable: ELASTIC_APM_API_KEY
apm_secret_token string	Use the APM server token Configuration: Environment variable: ELASTIC_APM_SECRET_TOKEN
apm_server_url string	Use the APM server and its environment variables. Configuration: Environment variable: ELASTIC_APM_SERVER_URL
apm_service_name string	The service name resource attribute. Default: “ansible” Configuration: Environment variable: ELASTIC_APM_SERVICE_NAME
apm_verify_server_cert boolean	Verifies the SSL certificate if an HTTPS connection. Choices: no yes ← (default) Configuration: Environment variable: ELASTIC_APM_VERIFY_SERVER_CERT
hide_task_arguments boolean	Hide the arguments for a task. Choices: no ← (default) yes Configuration: Environment variable: ANSIBLE_OPENTELEMETRY_HIDE_TASK_ARGUMENTS
traceparent string	The W3C Trace Context header traceparent. Configuration: Environment variable: TRACEPARENT

Examples

examples: |
  Enable the plugin in ansible.cfg:
    [defaults]
    callbacks_enabled = community.general.elastic

  Set the environment variable:
    export ELASTIC_APM_SERVER_URL=<your APM server URL)>
    export ELASTIC_APM_SERVICE_NAME=your_service_name
    export ELASTIC_APM_API_KEY=your_APM_API_KEY

Authors

• Victor Martinez (@v1v) <VictorMartinezRubio@gmail.com>