Exclude /health endpoint from being traced in distributed tracing

[loekensgard]

Hi,

I am currently configuring distributed tracing for OPA using the following configuration:

distributed_tracing:
  type: grpc
  address: <address>
  service_name: <custom_name>
  resource:
    deployment_environment: Dev/Qa/Prod

I would like to know if there is a way to exclude the /health endpoint from being traced. I am aware that other languages have filters to support this functionality, but I couldn't find any documentation for OPA regarding this.

Any guidance or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

[srenatus]

It's not configurable, OTel is a binary affair at the moment: on or off, for all handlers.

This would make for a fine feature request, though, are you OK with me converting it into one?

[loekensgard]

Yes, that would be great 😄

Additionally, it would be helpful if we could configure it to exclude the /health endpoint from tracing only if the response status is 200. If the /health endpoint returns a 400 status or higher, it should still be logged.

[srenatus]

open-policy-agent/opa#7494 here we go! 😃