ZIO_OTLP_DATADOG_PROVIDER_README.md

zio-opentelemetry-datadog-tracing-provider

Two words about Datadog

Terminology

• Datadog APM Agent: is the Java agent added by sbt-datadog in your project.
  Its job is to monitor your application and send traces to the Datadog Agent.
  See also: https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-java
• Datadog Agent: is the agent that receives traces from the Datadog APM Agent and sends them to the Datadog backend.
  It must be deployed somewhere in your infrastructure so that your application can send traces to it.
  See also: https://github.com/DataDog/datadog-agent

The DataDog APM Agent magic

The Datadog APM agent you configured with sbt-datadog adds a pre-configured OpenTelemetry Tracer to your project.
This OpenTelemetry Tracer is used to send traces to the Datadog Agent deployed in your infrastructure.
The zio-opentelemtry Tracing is a kind of wrapper around OpenTelemetry Tracer.
This is this Tracing abstraction that you'll need to use in your ZIO project.

This library is here to help you get a configured Tracing instance in your ZIO project.

zio-opentelemetry-datadog-tracing-provider

Installation

In your build.sbt file:

libraryDependencies += "com.guizmaii" %% "zio-opentelemetry-datadog-tracing-provider" % "x.x.x"

(To find the latest vesrion, see the releases)

Documentation

This library provides you two things:

1. The TracingProvider object to help you easily get a zio-opentelemetry Tracing instance configured to send traces to Datadog via the Datadog APM you configured with the sbt plugin.
2. The TracingConfig object to help you easily enable or disable zio-opentelemetry Tracing via an environment variable, ZIO_OPENTELEMETRY_DATADOG_ENABLED.

TracingProvider

TracingProvider.live layer

This layer is the one you'll want to use in your app.
It'll provide you a Tracing instance that'll send traces to Datadog via the Datadog APM you configured with the sbt plugin.

You have an example of how to use it in examples/my-traced-zio-project-example/src/main/scala/org/example/datadog/otlp/Main.

TracingProvider.noOp layer

This layer is useful when you want to disable tracing in your app.
It's for example useful in your tests.
The Tracing instance that it'll provide does nothing.

The "Traced Service Pattern"

We all know the ZIO "service pattern".
Well, I "extended" it with what I call the "traced service pattern".
I give an example of this pattern in examples/my-traced-zio-project-example/src/main/scala/org/example/datadog/otlp/MyService.