Open Telemetry Logger MDC auto-instrumentation - spring-boot

Question

The following Open Telemetry starters have been added to the Spring Boot project (v2.7.2) to instrument the application:
<dependency>
<groupId>io.opentelemetry.instrumentation</groupId>
<artifactId>opentelemetry-spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
<version>1.22.1-alpha</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>io.opentelemetry.instrumentation</groupId>
<artifactId>opentelemetry-jaeger-spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
<version>1.22.1-alpha</version>
</dependency>
Traces and spans are successfully exported to a Jaeger collector. The problem is those traces and spans cannot be correlated with log statements because logs don't contain the current trace_id and span_id.
By following the documentation I added the logging.pattern.level property to application.properties but it seems like information about the current span is not injected into the logging event's MDC copy.
logging.pattern.level = trace_id=%mdc{trace_id} span_id=%mdc{span_id} trace_flags=%mdc{trace_flags} %5p
For example:
log.info(
"traceId: {}, spanId: {}",
Span.current().getSpanContext().getTraceId(),
Span.current().getSpanContext().getSpanId());
2023-01-25 12:21:36.774 trace_id= span_id= trace_flags= INFO 34272 --- [nio-8080-exec-2] h.c.DemoController : traceId: 1bccb6a4fea8345026ca87a202f0091f, spanId: c59a5d44ee40cd2c
Have I missed anything?

Answer 1

opentelemetry-spring-boot-starter is missing this feature right now (version 1.22.1-alpha), but it can be added very easily.
Firstly, MDC Instrumentation for Logback dependency should be added to the project.
<dependency>
<groupId>io.opentelemetry.instrumentation</groupId>
<artifactId>opentelemetry-logback-mdc-1.0</artifactId>
<version>OPENTELEMETRY_VERSION</version>
</dependency>
Then add a custom logback.xml configuration to the classpath, which will automatically inject context information from the span context to logging events.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
<!-- Default logback configuration -->
<include resource="org/springframework/boot/logging/logback/defaults.xml"/>
<property name="LOG_FILE" value="${LOG_FILE:-${LOG_PATH:-${LOG_TEMP:-${java.io.tmpdir:-/tmp}}}/spring.log}"/>
<include resource="org/springframework/boot/logging/logback/console-appender.xml"/>
<include resource="org/springframework/boot/logging/logback/file-appender.xml"/>
<!-- -->
<appender name="OTEL" class="io.opentelemetry.instrumentation.logback.v1_0.OpenTelemetryAppender">
<appender-ref ref="CONSOLE"/>
<appender-ref ref="FILE"/>
</appender>
<root level="INFO">
<appender-ref ref="OTEL"/>
</root>
</configuration>
Finally, add the property to application.properties (as mentioned in the question):
logging.pattern.level = trace_id=%mdc{trace_id} span_id=%mdc{span_id} trace_flags=%mdc{trace_flags} %5p