# OpenTelemetryTesla
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Telemetry handler that creates OpenTelemetry spans from Tesla HTTP client events.
It attaches to the following events:
- `[:tesla, :request, :start]` - emitted at the beginning of the request.
* Measurement: `%{system_time: System.system_time()}`
* Metadata: `%{env: Tesla.Env.t()}`
- `[:tesla, :request, :stop]` - emitted at the end of the request.
* Measurement: `%{duration: native_time}`
* Metadata: `%{env: Tesla.Env.t()} | %{env: Tesla.Env.t(), error: term()}`
- `[:tesla, :request, :exception]` - emitted when an exception has been raised.
* Measurement: `%{duration: native_time}`
* Metadata: `%{kind: Exception.kind(), reason: term(), stacktrace: Exception.stacktrace()}`
OpenTelemetry span is enriched with the following attributes that are parsed from Tesla `stop` event.
- `[:method, :opts, :query, :status, :url]`
- `:headers`, it creates one attribute per item in the headers list
- `measurement` corresponds to the duration of the request
## Installation
If [available in Hex](https://hex.pm/docs/publish), the package can be installed
by adding `opentelemetry_tesla` to your list of dependencies in `mix.exs`:
```elixir
def deps do
[
{:opentelemetry_tesla, "~> 0.1.0-rc.1"}
]
end
```
## Setup
In your application start:
```elixir
def start(_type, _args) do
OpenTelemetry.register_application_tracer(:my_telemetry_api)
OpentelemetryTesla.setup()
children = [
{Phoenix.PubSub, name: MyApp.PubSub},
MyAppWeb.Endpoint
]
opts = [strategy: :one_for_one, name: MyApp.Supervisor]
Supervisor.start_link(children, opts)
end
```
After this, spans will start to be created whenever a request is completed or if it eventually fails with an exception.