AWS Xray exporter?

[swgoldwood]

Has anybody exported their traces to AWS Xray, or know of a way of accomplishing this, such as via some intermediate process? Would really appreciate any guidance!

Many Thanks

[esigo]

You may export your traces to otel-collector and then the collector export to other backends including AWS Xray.

[swgoldwood]

Thank you! This is the way

[esigo]

Also you can find an example using the otel-collector here.

[lalitb]

Moving to discussion.

[alfianabdi]

How to generate AWS XRay trace id ?
https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java/blob/main/sdk-extensions/aws/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/sdk/extension/aws/trace/AwsXrayIdGenerator.java

My goal is to include trace from nginx (https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp-contrib/tree/main/instrumentation/nginx) but it seems that the trace id is not accepted by xray. I keep getting this error from exporter

2022-06-02T08:52:27.820Z        debug   awsxrayexporter@v0.47.0/awsxray.go:99   Error translating span. {"kind": "exporter", "name": "awsxray", "error": "invalid xray traceid: a1f9a39e43cdb1fcf28a1c063516b4fa"}

[noliva]

So once there's an implementation of the AWS Xray ID generator, we should be able to send Otel traces to an XRay backend, but we need the custom Id generator for the reasons @alfianabdi mentioned.

[alfianabdi]

I tried to create AwsXrayIdGenerator here.
https://github.com/alfianabdi/opentelemetry-cpp/blob/main/sdk/src/trace/aws_xray_id_generator.cc

It works with my nginx opentelemetry instrumentation testing.
However I am not sure if it follow good code standard. I am also not sure where should I put the function, I believe it should not be inside opentelemetry-cpp repository.

[dluongiop]

Is there any update on when opentelemetry-cpp will be able to generate xray compatible traceid for exporting traces to aws xray?

It seems to me that if the awsxray expoerter would generate the xray trace id and incorporate the original otlp trace id into the xray trace document would be a better solution.

[lalitb]

opentelemetry-cpp provides the ability to plugin a custom TraceId generator. You can use that to generate the x-ray compatible TraceId. Refer : https://opentelemetry-cpp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/otel_docs/classopentelemetry_1_1sdk_1_1trace_1_1IdGenerator.html?highlight=idgenerator

[dluongiop]

Thank you. This worked very well.