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Feature Request FR-3423
Product Area Developer Experience
Status CLOSED

2 Voters

Add OpenTelemetry support (particularly tracing)

paul.parkinson Internal · Oct 10 2023

Idea Summary
Add Opentelemetry support (particularly tracing) in APEX to allow observability across APEX and cloud native components and languages such as, but not limited to, microservices deployed in Kuberenetes.

Use Case
The use case is the bridging/inclusion of observability from APEX to/from cloud-native (or any non-APEX application/service) microservices, etc. world.  An APEX frontend (as an option to the existing JavaScript frontend) will be added to the popular “Simplify Microservices With Oracle Converged Database” workshop: https://apexapps.oracle.com/pls/apex/r/dbpm/livelabs/view-workshop?wid=637

Preferred Solution (Optional)
I have described the use of OpenTelemetry across the company in my “DevOps meets DataOps: Oracle's End-to-End OpenTelemetry Observability Across Apps, Kubernetes, and Database” presentation and there is a video of the same here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUFt3Pzwj30&t=874s The idea is similar to the new ECID functionality that can be found here: https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/apex/23.1/htmrn/new-features.html#GUID-25199462-9DEC-4B4C-969C-DE397B172688  except it would be the creation and propagation of an OpenTelemetry tracing id/span.

We reviewed this idea carefully, and while it was interesting, we concluded that it is unlikely to make its way into APEX in the foreseeable future.

Comments

Comments

  • cloud OP 1.2 years ago

    I support this as well. Observability currently is not optimal for Entreprise Grade Apps