README.rst

OpenTelemetry Requests Instrumentation

This library allows tracing HTTP requests made by the requests library.

Installation

pip install opentelemetry-instrumentation-requests

Configuration

Exclude lists

To exclude certain URLs from being tracked, set the environment variable OTEL_PYTHON_REQUESTS_EXCLUDED_URLS (or OTEL_PYTHON_EXCLUDED_URLS as fallback) with comma delimited regexes representing which URLs to exclude.

For example,

export OTEL_PYTHON_REQUESTS_EXCLUDED_URLS="client/.*/info,healthcheck"

will exclude requests such as https://site/client/123/info and https://site/xyz/healthcheck.

References

• OpenTelemetry requests Instrumentation
• OpenTelemetry Project
• OpenTelemetry Python Examples