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Version: v1.0

Distributed Tracing

OpenTelemetry Tracing without Agenta SDK​

If you're working with systems that don't use the Agenta SDK, you can still integrate with Agenta's tracing infrastructure using standard OpenTelemetry.

1. Setup Requirements​

Install dependencies:

pip install opentelemetry-api opentelemetry-sdk opentelemetry-exporter-otlp

2. Configure Environment Variables​

# OTEL_PROPAGATORS = unset or "tracecontext,baggage"
# OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_COMPRESSION = unset or "gzip"
# OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT = "https://cloud.agenta.ai/api/otlp"
# OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS = "authorization=ApiKey xxx"
# OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_TRACES_ENDPOINT = "https://cloud.agenta.ai/api/otlp/v1/traces"
# OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_TRACES_HEADERS = "authorization=ApiKey xxx"

3. Setup in Code​

from opentelemetry.trace.propagation.tracecontext import TraceContextTextMapPropagator
from opentelemetry.baggage.propagation import W3CBaggagePropagator
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace import TracerProvider, Span
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import BatchSpanProcessor
from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.http.trace_exporter import OTLPSpanExporter, Compression

# Configuration
endpoint = "https://cloud.agenta.ai/api/otlp/v1/traces"
compression = Compression.Gzip
headers = {
    "traceparent": "00-xxx-xxx-01",
    "baggage": "ag.refs.application.id=xxx",
    "authorization": "ApiKey xxx",
}

# Set up provider, processor, and tracer
provider = TracerProvider()

processor = BatchSpanProcessor(
    OTLPSpanExporter(
        endpoint=endpoint,
        headers={"authorization": headers["authorization"]},
        compression=compression,
    )
)

provider.add_span_processor(processor)

tracer = provider.get_tracer("agenta.tracer")

# Extract incoming trace context
carrier = {"traceparent": headers["traceparent"]}
context = TraceContextTextMapPropagator().extract(carrier=carrier, context=None)

carrier = {"baggage": headers["baggage"]}
context = W3CBaggagePropagator().extract(carrier=carrier, context=context)

# Create and use spans
with tracer.start_as_current_span(name="agenta", context=context) as span:
    span: Span

    print(hex(span.get_span_context().trace_id))
    print(hex(span.get_span_context().span_id))
    print(span.name)

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