otelsql

It is an OpenTelemetry instrumentation for Golang database/sql, a port from open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go-contrib#505.

It instruments traces and metrics.

Install

$ go get github.com/XSAM/otelsql

Usage

This project provides four different ways to instrument database/sql:

otelsql.Open, otelsql.OpenDB, otesql.Register and otelsql.WrapDriver.

And then use otelsql.RegisterDBStatsMetrics to instrument sql.DBStats with metrics.

db, err := otelsql.Open("mysql", mysqlDSN, otelsql.WithAttributes(
	semconv.DBSystemMySQL,
))
if err != nil {
	panic(err)
}
defer db.Close()

err = otelsql.RegisterDBStatsMetrics(db, otelsql.WithAttributes(
	semconv.DBSystemMySQL,
))
if err != nil {
	panic(err)
}

Check Option for more features like adding context propagation to SQL queries when enabling WithSQLCommenter.

See godoc for details.

Blog

Getting started with otelsql, the OpenTelemetry instrumentation for Go SQL, is a blog post that explains how to use otelsql in miutes.

Examples

This project provides two docker-compose examples to show how to use it.

• The stdout example is a simple example to show how to use it with a MySQL database. It prints the trace data to stdout and serves metrics data via prometheus client.
• The otel-collector example is a more complex example to show how to use it with a MySQL database and an OpenTelemetry Collector. It sends the trace data and metrics data to an OpenTelemetry Collector. Then, it shows data visually on Jaeger and Prometheus servers.

Trace Instruments

It creates spans on corresponding methods.

Use SpanOptions to adjust creation of spans.

Metric Instruments

Name	Description	Units	Instrument Type	Value Type	Attribute Key(s)	Attribute Values
db.sql.latency	The latency of calls in milliseconds	ms	Histogram	float64	status	ok, error
					method	method name, like sql.conn.query
db.sql.connection.max_open	Maximum number of open connections to the database		Asynchronous Gauge	int64
db.sql.connection.open	The number of established connections both in use and idle		Asynchronous Gauge	int64	status	idle, inuse
db.sql.connection.wait	The total number of connections waited for		Asynchronous Counter	int64
db.sql.connection.wait_duration	The total time blocked waiting for a new connection	ms	Asynchronous Counter	float64
db.sql.connection.closed_max_idle	The total number of connections closed due to SetMaxIdleConns		Asynchronous Counter	int64
db.sql.connection.closed_max_idle_time	The total number of connections closed due to SetConnMaxIdleTime		Asynchronous Counter	int64
db.sql.connection.closed_max_lifetime	The total number of connections closed due to SetConnMaxLifetime		Asynchronous Counter	int64

Compatibility

This project is tested on the following systems.

OS	Go Version	Architecture
Ubuntu	1.23	amd64
Ubuntu	1.22	amd64
Ubuntu	1.23	386
Ubuntu	1.22	386
MacOS	1.23	amd64
MacOS	1.22	amd64
Windows	1.23	amd64
Windows	1.22	amd64
Windows	1.23	386
Windows	1.22	386

While this project should work for other systems, no compatibility guarantees are made for those systems currently.

The project follows the Release Policy to support major Go releases.

Why port this?

Based on this comment, OpenTelemetry SIG team like to see broader usage and community consensus on an approach before they commit to the level of support that would be required of a package in contrib. But it is painful for users without a stable version, and they have to use replacement in go.mod to use this instrumentation.

Therefore, I host this module independently for convenience and make improvements based on users' feedback.

Communication

I use GitHub discussions/issues for most communications. Feel free to contact me on CNCF slack.