{"categories":[{"label":"Monitoring","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/system-monitoring"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"Integrates Azure SDK clients with OpenTelemetry to emit distributed tracing spans for observability and monitoring of Azure service calls.","skillfed_tags":["azure-sdk","observability","distributed-tracing"],"use_cases":["Enable distributed tracing for Azure Storage, Key Vault, or Event Hubs calls to track request flow across services.","Export Azure SDK operation spans to Azure Monitor for centralized observability and performance monitoring.","Diagnose latency and failures in Azure service interactions by correlating spans with trace IDs across your system.","Integrate Azure workloads into existing OpenTelemetry observability pipelines without code changes to Azure client calls.","Record exception details and HTTP status codes in spans for post-incident analysis and alerting on Azure SDK errors."],"what_it_does":"This package is a plugin that bridges Azure SDK clients with OpenTelemetry, the industry-standard observability framework. It automatically instruments HTTP requests and operations made by Azure service clients to emit distributed tracing spans without requiring additional code changes. Once configured\u2014either via the AZURE_SDK_TRACING_IMPLEMENTATION environment variable or programmatically through azure.core.settings\u2014the plugin hooks into Azure Core's pipeline to capture span data including HTTP methods, status codes, server addresses, and exception details, then exports them to your configured OpenTelemetry exporter.\n\nThe package handles span lifecycle management, context propagation, and suppression of redundant internal spans automatically. Recent versions align span attribute names with OpenTelemetry semantic conventions version 1.23.1, remapping attributes like http.method to http.request.method for standards compliance. It is designed to work seamlessly with any Azure SDK that depends on azure-core, requiring minimal setup beyond installing the package and configuring your OpenTelemetry tracer provider.","worth_installing":"Yes, if you are using Azure SDKs and need distributed tracing. The package is actively maintained, has low install friction, and integrates cleanly with opentelemetry-api and azure-core. The main condition is that you must run Python 3.10 or later (3.8 and 3.9 are no longer supported as of version 1.0.0b13). License information is not clearly documented, so verify licensing terms before use in restricted environments."},"id":"azure-core-tracing-opentelemetry","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/azure-core-tracing-opentelemetry","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/azure-core-tracing-opentelemetry.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/azure-core-tracing-opentelemetry/"},"maintenance":{"status":"active"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2026-05-01","license_spdx":null,"license_treatment":"unclear","name":"azure-core-tracing-opentelemetry","python_support":"supports_current","summary":"Microsoft Azure Core OpenTelemetry plugin Library for Python"},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":16254043,"position":1157,"tier":"top_5000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"1.0.0b13"}