Opentelemetry with Django

collector_config.yaml

receivers:
  otlp:
    protocols:
      grpc:

processors:
  # Did not test without this batch, yet. Might be unnecessary.
  batch:

exporters:
  otlp:
    endpoint: "api.honeycomb.io:443"
    headers:
      "x-honeycomb-team": "MY KEY"
  logging:
    loglevel: warn

service:
  pipelines:
    traces:
      receivers: [otlp]
      processors: [batch]
      exporters: [otlp, logging]
    metrics:
      receivers: [otlp]
      processors: [batch]
      exporters: [otlp, logging]
    logs:
      receivers: [otlp]
      processors: [batch]
      exporters: [otlp, logging]

manage.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
"""Django's command-line utility for administrative tasks."""
import os
import sys

from opentelemetry.instrumentation.django import DjangoInstrumentor


def main():
    """Run administrative tasks."""
    os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "myapp.settings")

    DjangoInstrumentor().instrument()

    try:
        from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line
    except ImportError as exc:
        raise ImportError(
            "Couldn't import Django. Are you sure it's installed and "
            "available on your PYTHONPATH environment variable? Did you "
            "forget to activate a virtual environment?"
        ) from exc
    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

requirements.txt

opentelemetry-api = "==1.11.1"
opentelemetry-sdk = "==1.11.1"
opentelemetry-exporter-otlp = "==1.11.1"
opentelemetry-instrumentation-django = { extras = ["asgi"], version = "==0.30b1" }

views.py

from opentelemetry import trace
from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.grpc.trace_exporter import OTLPSpanExporter
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace import TracerProvider
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import BatchSpanProcessor


# Use otel collector agent, with grpc and insecure connection
# I couldn't make it work without this BatchSpanProcessor
span_exporter = BatchSpanProcessor(
    OTLPSpanExporter(
        endpoint="otel:4317",
        insecure=True,
    )
)
tracer_provider = TracerProvider()
trace.set_tracer_provider(tracer_provider)

tracer_provider.add_span_processor(span_exporter)

...

Using this collector container image: ghcr.io/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-releases/opentelemetry-collector-contrib:0.51.0