Requests Instrumentation

Snippets related to Requests python package

Configuring environment

Development Environment

You can run otel-tui as OpenTelemetry Collector, which acts as a terminal OpenTelemetry viewer

docker run -p 4317:4317 -p 4318:4318 --rm -it --name otel-tui ymtdzzz/otel-tui:latest

Install packages

Create the virtual environment and install the dependencies:

uv venv && source .venv/bin/activate

requirements.txt

opentelemetry-distro
opentelemetry-exporter-otlp
requests

Quick install with uv

uv pip install -r https://emdneto.github.io/opentelemetry-by-example/python/requests/requirements.txt

opentelemetry-bootstrap -a requirements | uv pip install -r -

Zero-code Instrumentation

Snippet

import requests

response = requests.get(url="https://www.example.org/")

Run this snippet

pentelemetry-instrument --service_name=snippet-zerocode python snippet_zerocode.py

Using Instrumentors

Snippet

Run this Python snippet

uv run https://emdneto.github.io/opentelemetry-by-example/python/requests/snippet_manual.py

Using Stable HTTP Semantic Conventions

By default opentelemetry-instrumentation-requests emit telemetry using an old Semantic Convention version. If you want to use new attributes defined in the OpenTelemetry HTTP Stable Semantic Convetions, you should opt-in as following:

Snippet

Run this snippet

OTEL_SEMCONV_STABILITY_OPT_IN="http" opentelemetry-instrument --service_name=snippet-zerocode-stable-semconv python snippet_zerocode.py