community.general.opentelemetry – Create distributed traces with OpenTelemetry

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.opentelemetry.

New in version 3.7.0: of community.general

Synopsis

Requirements

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

  • opentelemetry-api (Python library)

  • opentelemetry-exporter-otlp (Python library)

  • opentelemetry-sdk (Python library)

Parameters

Parameter

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enable_from_environment

string

added in 3.8.0 of community.general

Whether to enable this callback only if the given environment variable exists and it is set to true.

This is handy when you use Configuration as Code and want to send distributed traces if running in the CI rather when running Ansible locally.

For such, it evaluates the given enable_from_environment value as environment variable and if set to true this plugin will be enabled.

Configuration:

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_OPENTELEMETRY_ENABLE_FROM_ENVIRONMENT

hide_task_arguments

boolean

Hide the arguments for a task.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

Configuration:

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_OPENTELEMETRY_HIDE_TASK_ARGUMENTS

otel_service_name

string

The service name resource attribute.

Default: “ansible”

Configuration:

  • Environment variable: OTEL_SERVICE_NAME

traceparent

string

The W3C Trace Context header traceparent.

Default: “None”

Configuration:

  • Environment variable: TRACEPARENT

Examples

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

  Set the environment variable:
    export OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT=<your endpoint (OTLP/HTTP)>
    export OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS="authorization=Bearer your_otel_token"
    export OTEL_SERVICE_NAME=your_service_name

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