{"categories":[{"label":"Monitoring","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/system-monitoring/2"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"Adds distributed tracing to Falcon web applications by instrumenting HTTP requests and responses with OpenTelemetry spans.","skillfed_tags":["observability","distributed-tracing","falcon-framework"],"use_cases":["Trace HTTP request latency and dependencies in Falcon microservices for performance debugging.","Exclude health-check or internal endpoints from tracing to reduce noise in observability systems.","Extract custom request attributes (query strings, URI templates) and attach them as span metadata.","Correlate Falcon request traces with downstream service calls using trace context propagation.","Monitor Falcon application behavior in production by exporting traces to a centralized collector."],"what_it_does":"This package integrates OpenTelemetry tracing into Falcon web applications by wrapping the WSGI middleware layer. It automatically creates and manages spans for incoming HTTP requests, capturing request and response metadata. You install it alongside your Falcon app, call FalconInstrumentor().instrument() at startup, and it begins recording traces that can be exported to any OpenTelemetry-compatible backend (Jaeger, Datadog, etc.).\n\nThe instrumentation supports filtering URLs from tracing via regex patterns and extracting custom request attributes as span tags. It also provides request and response hooks for adding application-specific logic to spans. The package depends on the core OpenTelemetry API and instrumentation framework, plus WSGI middleware support and semantic conventions for standardized span naming.","worth_installing":"Yes, if you are running Falcon and need distributed tracing. The package is actively maintained, has low install friction, and integrates cleanly with the OpenTelemetry ecosystem. The beta status warrants checking release notes before upgrading in production, but it is widely used (top 5000 PyPI packages) and carries no known vulnerabilities. Install it when you have a tracing backend ready to receive spans."},"id":"opentelemetry-instrumentation-falcon","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-falcon","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-falcon.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/opentelemetry-instrumentation-falcon/"},"maintenance":{"status":"active"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2026-07-16","license_spdx":"Apache-2.0","license_treatment":"permissive","name":"opentelemetry-instrumentation-falcon","python_support":"supports_current","summary":"Falcon instrumentation for OpenTelemetry"},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":3837026,"position":2485,"tier":"top_5000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"0.65b0"}