RabbitMQ

Semantic Span Attributes

Attribute Key/Name	Attribute Value	Obfuscated/Unset when -Dfr.observability.trace.attributes.semantics.obfuscation.enabled=true
net.peer.name	Remote hostname.	True
net.peer.port	Remote port.	True
messaging.system	The type of messaging system. The value will be rabbitmq	False
messaging.destination_kind	The kind of messaging destination. The value will be queue	False
messaging.rabbitmq.command	The RabbitMQ command. e.g. basic.get	False
messaging.destination	The exchange.	False
messaging.rabbitmq.routing_key	The routing key.	False
messaging.rabbitmq.delivery_mode	The integer value of the delivery mode.	False
messaging.message_payload_size_bytes	The size, in bytes, of the received payload.	False
messaging.operation	The kind of messaging operation. Value will be receive for basicGet and process for handleDelivery.	False
messaging.rabbitmq.queue	Name of the queue.	False
messaging.queue_time_ms	How long the message was queued for in milliseconds. Is present if the received message's properties has a timestamp set.	False
messaging.rabbitmq.header.{header_key}	The header value corresponding to the specified header key. Will be forced to lowercase and have - characters replaced with _	False

Span Name

Span names for producer/publisher spans are formatted as {exchange name} send, whilst receiver and processor spans are formatted as {queue name} {messaging operation}. Other RabbitMQ spans will be called {RabbitMQ command}.

Things to be aware of

• There are three modes of trace propagation for RabbitMQ spans which can be set via observability.trace.propagation.messaging.type=(parent|link|none) in reactor.conf or -Dfr.observability.trace.propagation.messaging.type=(parent|link|none). They are:
  • None (Default) - sent messages won't propagate trace information to message receivers.
  • Link - sent messages will propagate trace information which the message receivers will use to start a new trace for the receiving transaction but will add a link to the span which sent the message.
  • Parent - sent messages will propagate trace information which the message receivers will use to append the receiving span to the producer span. Both the producing process and the receiving process will be on the same trace.
• You can change the propagation type, during runtime, by finding the Tracing section within the FusionReactor settings.
• Queue name will be <default> if not found and <generated> if it starts with amq.gen-.
• The exchange name will be <default> if not found.
• Track up to 10 message headers by settings a comma-separated list of header keys via -Dfr.observability.trace.rabbitmq.headers=.

Properties for RabbitMQ

Check the attributes page for general properties that affect RabbitMQ spans.

Property Key	Default	Description
fr.observability.trace.propagation.messaging.type	none	Determines the propagation relationship for messaging spans ( Kafka/RabbitMQ ). Options are none, link and parent. If none, headers aren't injected when producing and aren't extracted on consuming. If link, the consumer span will set the propagated trace context as a link. If parent, the consumer span will set the propagated trace context as a parent. Headers are injected for both link and parent.
fr.observability.trace.rabbitmq.headers	``	Comma-separated list of header names/keys to track for RabbitMQ basicDelivery and basicPublish transactions. Maximum of 10 allowed.

Example Span

Example of a RabbitMQ trace with propagation type set to parent. The producer/publisher span (<default> send) has been set as the parent of the consumer/receiver span (<generated> process) on the same trace.

The same span as before, but this time the propagation type has been set to link. The consumer/receiver span is on a different trace to the span which produced it, but it has a hyperlink to view said span.