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Manual Instrumentation for JDBC

Provides OpenTelemetry instrumentation for Java JDBC API.

Quickstart

Add these dependencies to your project.

Replace OPENTELEMETRY_VERSION with the latest stable release. Minimum version: 1.4.0

For Maven add to your pom.xml:

<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>io.opentelemetry.instrumentation</groupId>
    <artifactId>opentelemetry-jdbc</artifactId>
    <version>OPENTELEMETRY_VERSION</version>
  </dependency>
</dependencies>

For Gradle add to your dependencies:

implementation("io.opentelemetry.instrumentation:opentelemetry-jdbc:OPENTELEMETRY_VERSION")

Usage

There are three possible ways to activate the OpenTelemetry JDBC instrumentation. The first way is more preferable for DI frameworks which uses connection pools, as it wraps a DataSource with a special OpenTelemetry wrapper. The second one requires to change the connection URL and switch to use a special OpenTelemetry driver.

Datasource way

If your application uses a DataSource, simply wrap your current DataSource object with OpenTelemetryDataSource. OpenTelemetryDataSource has a constructor method that accepts the DataSource to wrap. This is by far the simplest method especially if you use a dependency injection (DI) frameworks such as Spring Framework, Micronaut, Quarkus, or Guice.

import org.apache.commons.dbcp2.BasicDataSource;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import io.opentelemetry.instrumentation.jdbc.datasource.OpenTelemetryDataSource;

@Configuration
public class DataSourceConfig {

  @Bean
  public DataSource dataSource() {
    BasicDataSource dataSource = new BasicDataSource();
    dataSource.setDriverClassName("org.postgresql.Driver");
    dataSource.setUrl("jdbc:postgresql://127.0.0.1:5432/example");
    dataSource.setUsername("postgres");
    dataSource.setPassword("root");
    return new OpenTelemetryDataSource(dataSource);
  }

}

Driver way

1. Activate tracing for JDBC connections by setting jdbc:otel: prefix to the JDBC URL:

jdbc:otel:h2:mem:test

2. Set the driver class to io.opentelemetry.instrumentation.jdbc.OpenTelemetryDriver and initialize the driver with:

Class.forName("io.opentelemetry.instrumentation.jdbc.OpenTelemetryDriver");