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Instrumented versions of OTP behaviours

Open tsloughter opened this issue 3 years ago • 0 comments

In the SIG meeting yesterday @yurishkuro asked about auto-instrumentation, like in Java and others. I realized this is similar to what @ferd and I had discussed at one point making otel_gen_* behaviours to be used in place of the standard gen_* modules but that propagate context.

Preferably they would just call the gen_* modules so no logic/features have to be duplicated, but I the receiving of the messages and unwrapping the context before calling handle_* will have to be implemented.

I'm also now wondering if adding "context" to OTP so the gen_* behaviours propagate it could be an acceptable patch to OTP.

This would still leave raw send to not be automatically propagating context, but this could be a happy middle ground between always propagating some value across processes and having to always do it manually.

Opening this issue to track/discuss ideas, other issues should probably be opened to track implementation of individual behaviours.

tsloughter avatar Nov 20 '20 14:11 tsloughter