Skip to main content
Deno.telemetry - Deno documentation
namespace Deno.telemetry
Unstable

APIs for working with the OpenTelemetry observability framework. Deno can export traces, metrics, and logs to OpenTelemetry compatible backends via the OTLP protocol.

Deno automatically instruments the runtime with OpenTelemetry traces and metrics. This data is exported via OTLP to OpenTelemetry compatible backends. User logs from the console API are exported as OpenTelemetry logs via OTLP.

User code can also create custom traces, metrics, and logs using the OpenTelemetry API. This is done using the official OpenTelemetry package for JavaScript: npm:@opentelemetry/api. Deno integrates with this package to provide tracing, metrics, and trace context propagation between native Deno APIs (like Deno.serve or fetch) and custom user code. Deno automatically registers the providers with the OpenTelemetry API, so users can start creating custom traces, metrics, and logs without any additional setup.

Examples

Using OpenTelemetry API to create custom traces

import { trace } from "npm:@opentelemetry/api@1";

const tracer = trace.getTracer("example-tracer");

async function doWork() {
  return tracer.startActiveSpan("doWork", async (span) => {
    span.setAttribute("key", "value");
    await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 1000));
    span.end();
  });
}

Deno.serve(async (req) => {
  await doWork();
  const resp = await fetch("https://example.com");
  return resp;
});

Variables

Back to top