OpenTelemetry Fastify Instrumentation for Node.js

[!IMPORTANT] This component is deprecated in favor of the official instrumentation package @fastify/otel, maintained by the Fastify authors. Please check the offical Fastify plugin's README.md for instructions on how to use @fastify/otel.

We will stop publishing new versions of @opentelemetry/instrumentation-fastify on June 30, 2025.

This module provides automatic instrumentation for the fastify module, which may be loaded using the @opentelemetry/sdk-trace-node package.

Compatible with OpenTelemetry JS API and SDK 1.0+.

Installation

This instrumentation relies on HTTP calls to also be instrumented. Make sure you install and enable both, otherwise you will have spans that are not connected with each other.

npm install --save @opentelemetry/instrumentation-http @opentelemetry/instrumentation-fastify

Supported Versions

fastify versions >=3.0.0 <6

Usage

OpenTelemetry fastify Instrumentation allows the user to automatically collect trace data and export them to their backend of choice, to give observability to distributed systems.

To load the instrumentation, specify it in the Node Tracer's configuration:

const { NodeTracerProvider } = require('@opentelemetry/node');
const { registerInstrumentations } = require('@opentelemetry/instrumentation');
const { HttpInstrumentation } = require('@opentelemetry/instrumentation-http');
const { FastifyInstrumentation } = require('@opentelemetry/instrumentation-fastify');

const provider = new NodeTracerProvider();
provider.register();

registerInstrumentations({
  instrumentations: [
    // Fastify instrumentation expects HTTP layer to be instrumented
    new HttpInstrumentation(),
    new FastifyInstrumentation(),
  ],
});

See examples/fastify for a short example.

Fastify Instrumentation Options

Options	Type	Example	Description
`requestHook`	`FastifyCustomAttributeFunction`	`(span, requestInfo) => {}`	Function for adding custom attributes to Fastify requests. Receives parameters: `Span, FastifyRequestInfo`.

Using `requestHook`

Instrumentation configuration accepts a custom "hook" function which will be called for every instrumented Fastify request. Custom attributes can be set on the span or run any custom logic per request.

import { FastifyInstrumentation } from "@opentelemetry/instrumentation-fastify"

const fastifyInstrumentation = new FastifyInstrumentation({
  requestHook: function (span: Span, info: FastifyRequestInfo) {
    span.setAttribute(
      'http.method',
      info.request.method,
    )
  }
});

Semantic Conventions

This package uses @opentelemetry/semantic-conventions version 1.22+, which implements Semantic Convention Version 1.7.0

Attributes collected:

Attribute	Short Description
`http.route`	The matched route (path template).

Useful links

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OpenTelemetry Fastify Instrumentation for Node.js

Installation

Supported Versions

Usage

Fastify Instrumentation Options

Using `requestHook`

Semantic Conventions

Useful links

License

Current Tags

51 Versions

OpenTelemetry Fastify Instrumentation for Node.js

Installation

Supported Versions

Usage

Fastify Instrumentation Options

Using requestHook

Semantic Conventions

Useful links

License

Current Tags

51 Versions

Using `requestHook`