Help needed: Is there a way to supply instrumentation kwargs when using auto instrumentation?

[danw-mpl]

I'm using opentelemetry-instrument.

I want to be able to set a kwarg to enable Redis sanitisation: #1572

Is there any way to supply kwargs to opentelemetry-instrument? Environment variables would be a huge bonus.

[srikanthccv]

Not possible currently. Feel free to send a PR for adding support with env OTEL_PYTHON_INSTRUMENTATION_SANITIZE_REDIS.

[danw-mpl]

No worries, just checking!

[iTaybb]

I'm thinking about writing some generic solution for that.
So OTEL_PYTHON_{INSTRUMENT}_{ARG} will be passed automatically.
That way we won't have to implement ENV solution for each and each argument.

For example, OTEL_PYTHON_PYMONGO_CAPTURE_STATEMENT=true will instrument the pymongo instrumentation with {'capture_statement': True}.

@srikanthccv What do you say? Should I open a PR for that?

[srikanthccv]

It may work sometimes, but I think any attempt at a generic solution will likely fail when the args are diverse and non-trivial. A configuration schema is in progress to solve this kind of problem: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-configuration.