Get a tracer from the default tracer provider

Calls get_default_tracer_provider() to get the default tracer provider. Then calls its $get_tracer() method to create a new tracer.

Usage

get_tracer(
  name = NULL,
  version = NULL,
  schema_url = NULL,
  attributes = NULL,
  ...,
  provider = NULL
)

Arguments

name: Name of the new tracer. If missing, then deduced automatically using default_tracer_name(). Make sure you read the manual page of default_tracer_name() before using this argument.
version: Optional. Specifies the version of the instrumentation scope if the scope has a version (e.g. R package version). Example value: "1.0.0".
schema_url: Optional. Specifies the Schema URL that should be recorded in the emitted telemetry.
attributes: Optional. Specifies the instrumentation scope attributes to associate with emitted telemetry.
...: Additional arguments are passed to the get_tracer() method of the provider.
provider: Tracer provider to use. If NULL, then it uses get_default_tracer_provider() to get a tracer provider.

Value

An OpenTelemetry tracer, an otel_tracer object.

Details

Usually you do not need to call this function directly, because start_local_active_span() calls it for you.

Calling get_tracer() multiple times with the same name (or same auto-deduced name) will return the same (internal) tracer object. (Even if the R external pointer objects representing them are different.)

A tracer is only deleted if its tracer provider is deleted and garbage collected.

Examples

myfun <- function() {
  trc <- otel::get_tracer()
  spn <- trc$start_span()
  on.exit(otel::end_span(spn), add = TRUE)
  otel::local_active_span(spn, end_on_exit = TRUE)
}
myfun()