go-ethereum/internal/telemetry/tracesetup/setup.go
Barnabas Busa f568ab9931
internal/telemetry: add gRPC transport for OTLP trace export (#33941)
## Summary
- Add `grpc://` and `grpcs://` URL scheme support for OTLP trace export
alongside existing `http://`/`https://`
- The OTLP spec defines two transports: HTTP (port 4318) and gRPC (port
4317). Many observability backends (Jaeger, Tempo, Datadog) prefer gRPC
for lower overhead
- Both `otlptracehttp` and `otlptracegrpc` return `*otlptrace.Exporter`,
so only exporter construction changes — everything downstream (batch
processor, tracer provider, lifecycle) is untouched
- Update flag usage strings to be transport-agnostic

## Example usage
```
geth --rpc.telemetry --rpc.telemetry.endpoint grpc://localhost:4317
geth --rpc.telemetry --rpc.telemetry.endpoint grpcs://tempo-grpc.example.com:443
```

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-21 14:48:21 +02:00

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// Copyright 2026 The go-ethereum Authors
// This file is part of the go-ethereum library.
//
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//
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// GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
//
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// along with the go-ethereum library. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
package tracesetup
import (
"context"
"encoding/base64"
"fmt"
"net/url"
"strings"
"time"
"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/internal/version"
"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/log"
"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/node"
"go.opentelemetry.io/otel"
"go.opentelemetry.io/otel/attribute"
"go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace"
"go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace/otlptracegrpc"
"go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace/otlptracehttp"
"go.opentelemetry.io/otel/propagation"
"go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/resource"
sdktrace "go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/trace"
semconv "go.opentelemetry.io/otel/semconv/v1.38.0"
)
const startStopTimeout = 10 * time.Second
// Service wraps the provider to implement node.Lifecycle.
type Service struct {
endpoint string
exporter *otlptrace.Exporter
provider *sdktrace.TracerProvider
}
// Start implements node.Lifecycle.
func (t *Service) Start() error {
ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), startStopTimeout)
defer cancel()
if err := t.exporter.Start(ctx); err != nil {
log.Error("OpenTelemetry exporter didn't start", "endpoint", t.endpoint, "err", err)
return err
}
log.Info("OpenTelemetry trace export enabled", "endpoint", t.endpoint)
return nil
}
// Stop implements node.Lifecycle.
func (t *Service) Stop() error {
ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), startStopTimeout)
defer cancel()
if err := t.provider.Shutdown(ctx); err != nil {
log.Error("Failed to stop OpenTelemetry service", "err", err)
return err
}
log.Debug("OpenTelemetry stopped")
return nil
}
// SetupTelemetry initializes telemetry with the given parameters.
func SetupTelemetry(cfg node.OpenTelemetryConfig, stack *node.Node) error {
if !cfg.Enabled {
return nil
}
if cfg.SampleRatio < 0 || cfg.SampleRatio > 1 {
return fmt.Errorf("invalid sample ratio: %f", cfg.SampleRatio)
}
// Create exporter based on endpoint URL
u, err := url.Parse(cfg.Endpoint)
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("invalid rpc tracing endpoint URL: %w", err)
}
// Build auth headers once, shared across transports.
var authHeaders map[string]string
if cfg.AuthUser != "" {
authHeaders = map[string]string{
"Authorization": "Basic " + base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString([]byte(cfg.AuthUser+":"+cfg.AuthPassword)),
}
}
var exporter *otlptrace.Exporter
switch u.Scheme {
case "http", "https":
opts := []otlptracehttp.Option{
otlptracehttp.WithEndpoint(u.Host),
}
if u.Scheme == "http" {
opts = append(opts, otlptracehttp.WithInsecure())
}
if u.Path != "" && u.Path != "/" {
opts = append(opts, otlptracehttp.WithURLPath(u.Path))
}
if authHeaders != nil {
opts = append(opts, otlptracehttp.WithHeaders(authHeaders))
}
exporter = otlptracehttp.NewUnstarted(opts...)
case "grpc", "grpcs":
if u.Path != "" && u.Path != "/" {
return fmt.Errorf("gRPC endpoints do not support URL paths: %s", u.Path)
}
opts := []otlptracegrpc.Option{
otlptracegrpc.WithEndpoint(u.Host),
}
if u.Scheme == "grpc" {
opts = append(opts, otlptracegrpc.WithInsecure())
}
if authHeaders != nil {
opts = append(opts, otlptracegrpc.WithHeaders(authHeaders))
}
exporter = otlptracegrpc.NewUnstarted(opts...)
default:
return fmt.Errorf("unsupported telemetry url scheme: %s", u.Scheme)
}
// Define sampler such that if no parent span is available,
// then sampleRatio of traces are sampled; otherwise, inherit
// the parent's sampling decision.
sampler := sdktrace.ParentBased(sdktrace.TraceIDRatioBased(cfg.SampleRatio))
// Define batch span processor options
batchOpts := []sdktrace.BatchSpanProcessorOption{
// The maximum number of spans that can be queued before dropping
sdktrace.WithMaxQueueSize(sdktrace.DefaultMaxQueueSize),
// The maximum number of spans to export in a single batch
sdktrace.WithMaxExportBatchSize(sdktrace.DefaultMaxExportBatchSize),
// How long an export operation can take before timing out
sdktrace.WithExportTimeout(time.Duration(sdktrace.DefaultExportTimeout) * time.Millisecond),
// How often to export, even if the batch isn't full
sdktrace.WithBatchTimeout(time.Duration(sdktrace.DefaultScheduleDelay) * time.Millisecond),
}
// Define resource attributes
var attr = []attribute.KeyValue{
semconv.ServiceName("geth"),
attribute.String("client.name", version.ClientName("geth")),
}
// Add instance ID if provided
if cfg.InstanceID != "" {
attr = append(attr, semconv.ServiceInstanceID(cfg.InstanceID))
}
// Add custom tags if provided
if cfg.Tags != "" {
for tag := range strings.SplitSeq(cfg.Tags, ",") {
key, value, ok := strings.Cut(tag, "=")
if ok {
attr = append(attr, attribute.String(key, value))
}
}
}
res := resource.NewWithAttributes(semconv.SchemaURL, attr...)
// Configure TracerProvider and set it as the global tracer provider
tp := sdktrace.NewTracerProvider(
sdktrace.WithSampler(sampler),
sdktrace.WithBatcher(exporter, batchOpts...),
sdktrace.WithResource(res),
)
otel.SetTracerProvider(tp)
// Set global propagator for context propagation
// Note: This is needed for distributed tracing
otel.SetTextMapPropagator(propagation.NewCompositeTextMapPropagator(
propagation.TraceContext{},
propagation.Baggage{},
))
service := &Service{endpoint: cfg.Endpoint, exporter: exporter, provider: tp}
stack.RegisterLifecycle(service)
return nil
}