README.md

OpenTelemetry - OpenTracing Shim

The OpenTracing shim is a bridge layer from OpenTelemetry to the OpenTracing API. It takes OpenTelemetry Tracer and exposes it as an implementation of an OpenTracing Tracer.

Usage

There are 2 ways to expose an OpenTracing tracer:

1. From a provided OpenTelemetry instance:

   Tracer tracer = OpenTracingShim.createTracerShim(openTelemetry);

2. From a specific TracerProvider, text map propagator (TextMapPropagator), and http propagator (TextMapPropagator):

   Tracer tracer = OpenTracingShim.createTracerShim(openTelemetry, textMapPropagator, httpPropagator);

Optionally register the tracer as the OpenTracing GlobalTracer:

GlobalTracer.registerIfAbsent(tracer);