opentelemetry-bootstrap seems to ignore pyproject.toml

[dimaqq]

Running the tool with and without pyproject.toml makes no difference.

The tool seems to rely on the current virtualenv instead, which seems wrong because:

• the dev dependencies cannot be distinguished from core dependencies
• the system packages are scanned too, and there's sadly lots of crap there
• 3rd party crud is scanned, e.g. if the system has ROS installed, that gets scanned too

I feel that current design just won't cut it, not since year 2020.

[srikanthccv]

Many packages in this repo can be significantly improved in various ways, and that requires time and effort. There is only much few people can do. This package is optional, and you are free not to use it. We very much appreciate the contributions.

I would rather offer my help on OSS repos with change proposal than just leave negative comments on the current state of things.

[dimaqq]

I apologise for my previous comment.

I got all excited about OTEL esp after the jaeger / openmetrics chasm appeared to be healed, my coworkers showed me nice demos with spans emanating from C++ or golang components...

I tried to add one silly service, so Python, pep-518/621, fastapi... and had hard time getting it to emit any data at all; couldn't figure out a simple way to validate that sensitive data is withheld; and then realised that the recommended tooling is incompatible with my project and expectations of environment isolation. I've noticed something similar for JavaScript projects -- that this library/tool appears "entitled" to run first in order to instrument stuff. Basically it feels "too early to consider seriously". Once again, I'm sorry for venting.

So, ugh, take it as a call to action, whether to ask community for help or update the quickstart docs or whatever it takes.

[srikanthccv]

We tried to ensure they are covered here https://opentelemetry.io/docs/instrumentation/python/ from getting started guide to concepts to manual examples. Were they not helpful? Or did they have any issues with documentation? Let us know if something is missing there that would be helpful for first-time users.