The OpenTelemetry aws-sdk gem is a community maintained instrumentation for aws-sdk-ruby.

Install the gem using:

gem install opentelemetry-instrumentation-aws_sdk

Or, if you use bundler, include opentelemetry-instrumentation-aws_sdk in your Gemfile.

To install the instrumentation, call use with the name of the instrumentation.

OpenTelemetry::SDK.configure do |c|
  c.use 'OpenTelemetry::Instrumentation::AwsSdk', {
    inject_messaging_context: true,
    suppress_internal_instrumentation: true
  }
end

Alternatively, you can also call use_all to install all the available instrumentation.

OpenTelemetry::SDK.configure do |c|
  c.use_all
end

This instrumentation offers the following configuration options:

• :inject_messaging_context (default: false): When set to true, adds context key/value to Message Attributes for SQS/SNS messages.
• suppress_internal_instrumentation (default: false): When set to true, any spans with span kind of internal are suppressed from traces.

AWS SDK for Ruby V3 added support for Observability which includes a new configuration, telemetry_provider and an OpenTelemetry-based telemetry provider. Only applies to AWS service gems released after 2024-09-03.

Using later versions of these gems will give more details on the internal spans. See below for example usage:

# configures the OpenTelemetry SDK with instrumentation defaults
OpenTelemetry::SDK.configure do |c|
  c.use 'OpenTelemetry::Instrumentation::AwsSdk'
end

# create open-telemetry provider and pass to client config
otel_provider = Aws::Telemetry::OTelProvider.new
client = Aws::S3::Client.new(telemetry_provider: otel_provider)

To run the example:

1. cd to the examples directory and install gems
   • cd example
   • bundle install
2. Run the sample client script
   • ruby trace_demonstration.rb

This will run SNS publish command, printing OpenTelemetry traces to the console as it goes.

The opentelemetry-instrumentation-aws_sdk gem source is on github, along with related gems including opentelemetry-api and opentelemetry-sdk.

The OpenTelemetry Ruby gems are maintained by the OpenTelemetry Ruby special interest group (SIG). You can get involved by joining us on our GitHub Discussions, Slack Channel or attending our weekly meeting. See the meeting calendar for dates and times. For more information on this and other language SIGs, see the OpenTelemetry community page.

Apache 2.0 license. See LICENSE for more information.