Question about community.general.opentelemetry callback

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Hi group, good day, how are you?

I have a question about using community.general.opentelemetry to send data to APM.

I have set my ansible.cfg like this.

[defaults]

callbacks_enabled = community.general.opentelemetry

[callback_opentelemetry]

enable_from_environment = ANSIBLE_OPENTELEMETRY_ENABLED

And then environment variables like this.

OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT=http://elk-server:8200

OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS=“authorization=Bearer xxxxxx”

OTEL_SERVICE_NAME=ansible

I have also installed the telemetry python packages

pip list | grep opentele
opentelemetry-api 1.13.0
opentelemetry-exporter-otlp 1.13.0
opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc 1.13.0
opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http 1.13.0
opentelemetry-instrumentation 0.34b0
opentelemetry-proto 1.13.0
opentelemetry-sdk 1.13.0
opentelemetry-semantic-conventions 0.34b0

But still getting this error, does anyone have some ideas?

Appreciate it

[WARNING]: Skipping callback ‘community.general.opentelemetry’, unable to load due to: The opentelemetry-api,
opentelemetry-exporter-otlp or opentelemetry-sdk must be installed to use this plugin

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What does ‘ansible --version’ say?
And ‘pip --version’

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Hi man, thanks for the time.

Please see the information as requested

ansible --version
ansible [core 2.13.2]

pip --version
pip 22.3 from /home/daniel/py_venvs/ansible_2.13/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip (python 3.9)

python --version
Python 3.9.13

4

Hi man, thanks for the time.

Please see the information as requested

ansible --version
ansible [core 2.13.2]

This is not the entire output. It should like this like this:

ansible [core 2.11.7]
config file = /Users/dick.visser/git/github.com/dnmvisser/tienhuis_ansible/ansible.cfg
configured module search path = [‘/Users/dick.visser/.ansible/plugins/modules’, ‘/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules’]
ansible python module location = /Users/dick.visser/git/github.com/dnmvisser/tienhuis_ansible/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ansible
ansible collection location = /Users/dick.visser/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
executable location = /Users/dick.visser/git/github.com/dnmvisser/tienhuis_ansible/venv/bin/ansible
python version = 3.9.9 (main, Jan 25 2022, 23:02:06) [Clang 13.0.0 (clang-1300.0.29.30)]
jinja version = 3.0.3
libyaml = True

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Hi man.

This is the entire output

ansible --version
ansible [core 2.13.2]
config file = None
configured module search path = [‘/home/daniel/.ansible/plugins/modules’, ‘/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules’]
ansible python module location = /home/daniel/py_venvs/ansible_2.13/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ansible
ansible collection location = /home/daniel/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
executable location = /home/daniel/py_venvs/ansible_2.13/bin/ansible
python version = 3.9.13 (main, May 23 2022, 22:02:02) [GCC 7.5.0]
jinja version = 3.1.2
libyaml = True

6

That seems right.
I don’t know what it could be then.

7

Maybe also take a look at pip list -v to see the paths of where those python libraries are installed. And make sure they are in /home/daniel/py_venvs/ansible_2.13/lib/python3.9/site-packages/

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Yes, it’s strange.

They are installed in that path
pip list -v | grep opent
opentelemetry-api 1.13.0 /home/daniel/py_venvs/ansible_2.13/lib/python3.9/site-packages pip
opentelemetry-exporter-otlp 1.13.0 /home/daniel/py_venvs/ansible_2.13/lib/python3.9/site-packages pip
opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc 1.13.0 /home/daniel/py_venvs/ansible_2.13/lib/python3.9/site-packages pip
opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http 1.13.0 /home/daniel/py_venvs/ansible_2.13/lib/python3.9/site-packages pip
opentelemetry-instrumentation 0.34b0 /home/daniel/py_venvs/ansible_2.13/lib/python3.9/site-packages pip
opentelemetry-proto 1.13.0 /home/daniel/py_venvs/ansible_2.13/lib/python3.9/site-packages pip
opentelemetry-sdk 1.13.0 /home/daniel/py_venvs/ansible_2.13/lib/python3.9/site-packages pip
opentelemetry-semantic-conventions 0.34b0 /home/daniel/py_venvs/ansible_2.13/lib/python3.9/site-packages pip

But I was able to make it work using a container on AWX. I’ll try to reinstall my venv and packages to work locally.

Thanks for your tips!!

9

Hi,

unfortunately you did not mention which version of community.general
you are using. For opentelemetry-api 1.13.0 you need community.general
5.8.0, since that contains a bugfix which allows the opentelemetry
callback to work with that version. (It removed some helper function
that the plugin was using, see
https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-5/CHANGELOG.rst#bugfixes.)

Cheers,
Felix

10

Hi Felix.

You are completely right.
I’ve tried with the community.general:5.7.0 and it didn’t work out.
After changing to version 6.0.0 it started to work perfectly.

Thank you all for sharing your knowledge.

Br,