Falcon Example

[konfortes]

Hey guys, any particular reason the falcon example uses manual instrumentation in the /hello endpoint?
It should be automatically instrumented. Am I missing something?

[pellared]

Do you mean this:

tracing-examples/opentelemetry-tracing/opentelemetry-python-tracing/falcon/main.py

Line 18 in 1134788

with tracer.start_as_current_span('internal_span', kind=SpanKind.INTERNAL) as span:

?

If so, then this is just an example of creating a manual span on top of automatic instrumentation.

[konfortes]

Yes.
I find it confusing since this is a repo with examples of instrumenting Python frameworks. manual instrumentation has its place but probably somewhere else.
Having the internal span go along all the span we get from the auto instrumentation also attributes to my confusion.

P.S
I came across this example after I wasn't able to automatically instrument my Falcon app and it made me wonder whether I should manually instrument Falcon apps

[konfortes]

I found the issue.
My poc wasn't working because I used the code from the example with falcon 3.1 and opentelemetry-instrumentation-falcon 0.33b0.
opentelemetry-instrumentation-falcon is only able to instrument when using the App class (instead of the API class which is deprecated in version 3 of falcon).

Opened a PR to update the example
I also removed the manual tracing since it is confusing and not compatible with the other examples.