This commit documents the fact that the Servlet Filter based
observations for MVC applications is limited by the Servlet Filter
contract in the first place. All processing and logging that happens
outside of the scope of the filter is not observed.
Log statements from the catalina engine (in the case of Tomcat), or any
container-specific infrastructure, is not covered by the
instrumentation.
Closes gh-29398
The `ServerHttpObservationFilter` implementations record observations
for processed HTTP exchanges. The `Observation.Context` contains various
metadata contributed by the observation convention. The instrumentation
can also mark the observation as an error by setting any `Throwable` on
the context.
Because the instrumentation is done as filters, only exceptions reaching
the filter can be considered. Any error handled at a lower level by the
Framework can, or cannot be considered as an error for an observation.
This commit documents how a web application should opt-in for
considering a handled exception as an error for the current observation.
Closes gh-29848
This commit documents how Observation instrumentation should be
activated for `RestTemplate` and `WebClient`: they both need an
`ObservationRegistry` configured to create and record actual
observations.
This is being done automatically in Spring Boot if auto-configured
builders (`RestTemplateBuilder`, `WebClient.Builder`) are used.
Closes gh-29904
Prior to this commit, the "uri" KeyValue for low cardinality metadata
would contain the entire uri template given to the HTTP client when
creating the request. This was a breaking change for existing metrics
dashboards, as previous support was removing the protocol, host and port
parts of the URI.
Indeed, this information is available in the "client.name" and
"http.uri" KayValue.
This commit parses and removes the protocol+host+port information from
the uri template for the "uri" KeyValue.
Fixes gh-29885
Prior to this commit, the `"client.name"` key value for the
`"http.client.requests"` client HTTP observations would be considered as
high cardinality, as the URI host is technically unbounded.
In practice, the number of hosts used by a client in a given application
can be considered as low cardinality. This commit moves this keyvalue to
low cardinality so that it's present for both metrics and traces.
Closes gh-29839
Brian Clozel
Sam Brannen
Rob Winch
Johnny Lim
Yanming Zhou