Opentracing support in Flowable (profiling)

[wberges]

Hello,

Is it possible to add the support of opentracing in Flowable?
Currently, it isn’t the case and it’s so impossible to use opentracing tools like Dynatrace or Instana.

Thanks
Best Regards
William

[joram]

I’m not familiar with the tool. What would be needed to make it possible to integrate with it?

[Robinyo]

OpenTracing and OpenCensus have merged to form OpenTelemetry.

Ref:

• Pivotal: Beyond the Twelve-Factor App - Telemetry
• OpenTracing on Kubernetes
• Java Agent for OpenTracing - Instrumentation Plugin

[joram]

Thanks for the links @Robinyo, that clarifies it more.

Isn’t this covered by Spring Boot (when using Spring Boot), e.g. its actuators (and are we talking about custom Flowable actuators)? Or is there something needed on the code level?

[chaserb]

@joram , spring boot provides out of the box instrumentation as you suggest for a variety of generic application functions, eg: http tracing, database tracing, redis, rabbit, etc. Something I think that would be useful would be tracing specific to Flowable, eg: spans tied to process instance IDs, sub-spans tied to sub-process instance IDs, etc.

I’ve just started looking into accomplishing something like this, maybe with Execution Listener delegates, and the thought occurred to me that Flowable might already have this, which brought me to this topic.