PHP library that has OpenTelemetry natively integrated

[tillkruss]

Hi!

I saw this:

As of today, we don't know about any PHP library that has OpenTelemetry natively integrated.
https://opentelemetry.io/docs/languages/php/libraries/

We have an Open Telemetry wrapper class for Relay (extension) that's used by a few of our clients.

Not sure if that's what was meant?

[tiffany76]

Thanks for letting us know, @tillkruss!

@open-telemetry/php-approvers, PTAL.

[svrnm]

hey Till, thanks for sharing!

What we are looking for when we talk about "natively integrated" is a library that does not require a wrapper or an instrumentation library, you can read more about this topic here:

https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/instrumentation/libraries/

So, instead of providing a wrapper the relay project would take direct dependency of the OpenTelemetry API (which is noop by default) and a user can activate OTel by adding the OpenTelemetry SDK to the application as well.

Independent of that, it's great to see that such a wrapper exist, and we should add it to the OpenTelemetry Registry:

https://opentelemetry.io/ecosystem/registry/

Here are instructions on the how to

https://opentelemetry.io/ecosystem/registry/adding/

[tillkruss]

@svrnm Can you point us at the documentation on how we can record spans from C within our extension? Ping @yatsukhnenko.

[brettmc]

@tillkruss it would be https://opentelemetry.io/docs/languages/cpp/ but you won't find anything specific to integrating it into a PHP extension. However, I have been playing around with something similar so perhaps we can compare notes over on the opentelemetry-php slack channel ?