Jido.Otel

OpenTelemetry extension for the Jido.Observe system.

Jido.Otel provides integrated observability instrumentation for Jido-based applications, bridging the Jido ecosystem with standard OpenTelemetry practices.

What It Does

• Implements Jido.Observe.Tracer as Jido.Otel.Tracer
• Converts Jido event prefixes to span names ([:jido, :agent, :run] -> jido.agent.run)
• Sanitizes and maps Jido metadata and measurements to OpenTelemetry attributes
• Records exceptions as OpenTelemetry exception events
• Applies idempotent terminal span handling (first_terminal_call_wins)
• Activates synchronous Jido.Observe.with_span/3 spans as the current OTel span for correctly parented nested instrumentation

Installation

Add jido_otel to your dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [
    {:jido_otel, "~> 0.1.0"}
  ]
end

Then run:

mix deps.get

Installation via Igniter

(Coming soon)

mix igniter.install jido_otel

Quick Start

Configure Jido to use the OpenTelemetry tracer:

config :jido, :observability,
  tracer: Jido.Otel.Tracer

Configure your OpenTelemetry SDK (minimal local baseline):

config :opentelemetry,
  traces_exporter: :none

Configure tracer current-span behavior (recommended production default):

config :jido_otel,
  current_span_mode: :safe

Use Jido.Observe spans as usual and they will be bridged to OpenTelemetry. Synchronous with_span/3 spans are activated only while the callback runs:

Jido.Observe.with_span([:jido, :agent, :action, :run], %{agent_id: "agent-1"}, fn ->
  # perform work
  :ok
end)

For exporting to an OTLP collector, set your preferred exporter config in your host application.

Async Safety and Race Policy

Jido.Otel.Tracer supports two runtime modes:

• :safe (default): does not mutate process-local current span context in span_start/2.
• :activate_unsafe: preserves legacy same-process activation/restore behavior.

For async start_span/finish_span flows across processes, use :safe. Synchronous Jido.Observe.with_span/3 uses with_span_scope/3, which activates the span only in the caller process and restores the previous current span before returning.

Terminal callbacks (span_stop/2 and span_exception/4) are idempotent. When multiple terminal calls race, the first terminal call wins and later calls are no-op.

Guides

• Quickstart
• Configuration
• Release Checklist
• Upstream Alignment Proposal

Release Quality Checks

Run the full public-release gate locally:

mix release.check

Full documentation is available at https://hexdocs.pm/jido_otel.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for contribution guidelines.

License

Apache License 2.0 - see LICENSE for details.