{"categories":[{"label":"Monitoring","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/system-monitoring/5"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"Adds distributed tracing instrumentation to Flask applications via OpenCensus, capturing request traces and exporting them to configured backends.","skillfed_tags":["distributed-tracing","observability","abandoned"],"use_cases":["Instrument a Flask microservice to emit traces to a distributed tracing backend for end-to-end request visibility.","Exclude health-check endpoints from tracing to reduce noise in trace data collection.","Configure probabilistic sampling to control trace volume while maintaining observability of production traffic.","Export Flask request traces to a centralized trace collector for multi-service debugging and latency analysis."],"what_it_does":"OpenCensus Flask Integration is a middleware package that instruments Flask applications to collect distributed tracing data. It wraps incoming requests and exports trace spans to configured backends (such as Jaeger, Zipkin, or Google Cloud Trace), allowing you to track request flow across microservices and diagnose performance issues. The middleware integrates directly into Flask's request/response cycle and supports configuration of samplers and exporters via Flask's config dictionary.\n\nThe package depends on flask and opencensus as runtime dependencies. It is designed to be dropped into existing Flask applications with minimal code changes\u2014typically just instantiating the middleware with your app instance. Configuration options allow you to exclude certain paths from tracing and customize sampling and export behavior.","worth_installing":"No. The package is abandoned (no releases since 2023-03-10, repository archived as of 2025-06-12) and receives no maintenance or security updates. While it may work for legacy Flask applications already using it, new projects should adopt actively maintained alternatives for distributed tracing. Existing users should plan migration to a supported solution."},"id":"opencensus-ext-flask","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/opencensus-ext-flask","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/opencensus-ext-flask.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/opencensus-ext-flask/"},"maintenance":{"status":"abandoned"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2023-03-10","license_spdx":null,"license_treatment":"permissive","name":"opencensus-ext-flask","python_support":"unspecified","summary":"OpenCensus Flask Integration"},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":74143,"position":14870,"tier":"top_15000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"0.8.2"}