use OpenTelemetry with Google Trace

[christopheblin]

In my code, I am currently using builder.Services.AddGoogleDiagnosticsForAspNetCore() as documetned in https://cloud.google.com/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Diagnostics.AspNetCore3/latest

Now, I'd like to switch to a more generic Opentelemetry approach (like very well described with zipkin in https://craftbakery.dev/try-zipkin/)

I see that other languages should directly use Open Telemetry (https://cloud.google.com/trace/docs/setup#recommended_client_libraries)

=> is there a chance that we can already switch to Open Telemetry with Asp.NET Core ?
If yes, is there a chance to have some pointers ?

[jskeet]

Currently, no - but we're looking at this, as captured in #8366.

Assigning to @Rishabh-V to see if there's more to this issue than I can spot (as he's been looking at this) but I suspect it'll be best if you (@christopheblin) subscribe to #8366 and we keep that as the single source of updates for OpenTelemetry.

[Rishabh-V]

Hi @christopheblin, There is an option to use OpenTelemetry with ASP.NET Core and Google Cloud Trace.

• Leverage the OpenTelemetry packages with ASP.NET Core as described in this getting started guide in OpenTelemetry website. This should help set-up OpenTelemetry with your ASP.NET Core app.
• The exporter shown in the guide is a Console Exporter. To export the data to Google Cloud Trace, use the community written StackDriver exporter described here

These steps should get you started. However, we can't actually recommend these packages at the moment, partly as they're third-party packages we're not responsible for, and partly because they're pre-releases.

[christopheblin]

@jskeet @Rishabh-V thanks for the detailed answers, I already follow #8366 so I'm glad it will be included there ! this is such a pleasure to work with you ❤️

I'll investigate the solution proposed by @Rishabh-V next week and report here

[jskeet]

Great, thanks. I'll close this issue now, so we can keep everything on the other issue.

[rajiv36]

@jskeet @Rishabh-V thanks for the detailed answers, I already follow #8366 so I'm glad it will be included there ! this is such a pleasure to work with you ❤️

I'll investigate the solution proposed by @Rishabh-V next week and report here

Hi Christopheblin, Did you give it a try. Wondering if you evaluated it(telemetry dot net with StackDriver exporter ) as I wanted to give it a try.

[christopheblin]

@rajiv36 no I did not dig into OpenTelemetry, in the end, I used #9948