OpenTelemetry NestJS Instrumentation for Node.js

This module provides automatic instrumentation for the Nest framework module, which may be loaded using the @opentelemetry/sdk-trace-node package and is included in the @opentelemetry/auto-instrumentations-node bundle.

If total installation size is not constrained, it is recommended to use the @opentelemetry/auto-instrumentations-node bundle with @opentelemetry/sdk-node for the most seamless instrumentation experience.

Compatible with OpenTelemetry JS API and SDK 1.0+.

Installation

npm install --save @opentelemetry/instrumentation-nestjs-core

Supported Versions

@nestjs/core versions >=4.0.0 <12

Usage

OpenTelemetry Nest Instrumentation allows the user to automatically collect trace data from the controller handlers and export them to the backend of choice.

To load a specific instrumentation (Nest in this case), specify it in the registerInstrumentations' configuration.

const { NodeTracerProvider } = require('@opentelemetry/sdk-trace-node');
const { NestInstrumentation } = require('@opentelemetry/instrumentation-nestjs-core');
const { registerInstrumentations } = require('@opentelemetry/instrumentation');

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

registerInstrumentations({
  instrumentations: [
    new NestInstrumentation(),
  ],
});

Emitted Spans

Name	`nestjs.type`	Description	Included attributes
`Create Nest App`	`app_creation`	Traces the bootup for the Nest App. The `NestFactory(Static).create` call.	`nestjs.module`
`<ControllerName>.<memberName>`	`request_context`	Traces the whole request context.	`http.*`, `nestjs.callback`
`<memberName>`	`handler`	Traces the work of a specific controller member function.	`nestjs.callback`

Semantic Conventions

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

Attributes collected:

Attribute	Short Description
`component`*	"@nestjs/core"
`nestjs.version`*	Version of instrumented `@nestjs/core` package
`nestjs.type`*	See NestType
`nestjs.module`	Nest module class name
`nestjs.controller`	Nest controller class name
`nestjs.callback`	The function name of the member in the controller
`http.route`	Route assigned to handler. Ex: `/users/:id`
`http.method` / `http.request.method`	HTTP method. See "HTTP Semantic Convention migration" note below.
`http.url` / `url.full`	Full request URL. See "HTTP Semantic Convention migration" note below.

* included in all of the spans.

HTTP Semantic Convention migration

HTTP semantic conventions (semconv) were stabilized in v1.23.0, and a migration process was defined. This instrumentations adds some minimal HTTP-related attributes on created spans. Starting with instrumentation-nestjs-core version 0.52.0, the OTEL_SEMCONV_STABILITY_OPT_IN environment variable can be used to customize which HTTP semantic conventions are used for those HTTP-related attributes.

To select which semconv version(s) is emitted from this instrumentation, use the OTEL_SEMCONV_STABILITY_OPT_IN environment variable.

http: emit the new (stable) v1.23.0+ semantics
http/dup: emit both the old v1.7.0 and the new (stable) v1.23.0+ semantics
By default, if OTEL_SEMCONV_STABILITY_OPT_IN includes neither of the above tokens, the old v1.7.0 semconv is used.

For this instrumentation, the only impacted attributes are as follows:

v1.7.0 semconv	v1.23.0 semconv
`http.method`	`http.request.method`
`http.url`	`url.full`

See the HTTP semconv migration plan for OpenTelemetry JS instrumentations for more details.

Useful links

For more information on OpenTelemetry, visit: https://opentelemetry.io/
For more about OpenTelemetry JavaScript: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js
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