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id: opentelemetry-instrumentation-remoulade
version: "0.65b0"
license: Apache-2.0
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
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# opentelemetry-instrumentation-remoulade — OpenTelemetry Remoulade instrumentation

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 3.3M/mo

## What it is and what it does

This package integrates Remoulade, a distributed task queue library, with OpenTelemetry's tracing infrastructure. It automatically instruments Remoulade task execution to emit spans that capture task lifecycle events, timing, and metadata, allowing you to observe task queue behavior across distributed systems. The instrumentation sits between your application and Remoulade, intercepting task calls and forwarding trace data to your configured OpenTelemetry exporters.

It's designed for teams running Remoulade in production who need visibility into task execution patterns, latency, and failures as part of a broader observability strategy. The package depends on three core OpenTelemetry libraries (api, instrumentation, and semantic-conventions) and requires Python 3.10 or later. Installation is straightforward, and the instrumentation is activated by a single call after importing.

Use it for:

- Monitor task queue latency and throughput in a microservices architecture using a centralized tracing backend.
- Correlate Remoulade task execution with upstream HTTP requests and downstream database queries in end-to-end traces.
- Debug task failures by examining span logs and attributes captured during task execution.
- Alert on task queue backlog or slow task execution by exporting metrics to a time-series database.

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Adds distributed tracing instrumentation for the Remoulade task queue library, capturing request spans and metrics for observability within OpenTelemetry-compatible systems.

Yes, if you are already running Remoulade and have an OpenTelemetry observability stack in place. The package is actively maintained, has no known vulnerabilities, and low install friction. It is marked Beta but stable enough for production use on supported Python versions. Skip it if you are not using Remoulade or do not have an OpenTelemetry exporter configured.

## Install

pip install opentelemetry-instrumentation-remoulade
uv add opentelemetry-instrumentation-remoulade
poetry add opentelemetry-instrumentation-remoulade

## Installing opentelemetry-instrumentation-remoulade

Before you install: Low friction install with three stable runtime dependencies. Package is actively maintained with a recent release; marked Beta but supported on current Python versions (3.10–3.14).

License in practice: Apache-2.0 permissive license allows use in most commercial and open-source projects without significant restrictions.

Quickstart:

pip install opentelemetry-instrumentation-remoulade

from opentelemetry.instrumentation.remoulade import RemouladeInstrumentor
RemouladeInstrumentor().instrument()

Requires Python 3.10 or later; Remoulade library must be installed and configured separately.

Verify before relying:

- Whether instrumentation works with all Remoulade versions or has specific version constraints.
- Performance overhead of tracing on task queue throughput under production load.
- Compatibility with specific OpenTelemetry exporters (e.g., Jaeger, Datadog, Prometheus).

## Package facts

- License: Apache-2.0 (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 3.3M/month (top 5,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

remoulade tracing instrumentation, opentelemetry task queue monitoring, distributed tracing remoulade, remoulade observability, task queue span collection, opentelemetry remoulade integration, observability, distributed-tracing, task-queue

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