Auto-instrumentation should exclude packages mentioned in OTEL_PYTHON_DISABLED_INSTRUMENTATIONS env variable

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
   ([#1441](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/1441))
 
 ### Added
+- Added the ability to disable instrumenting libraries specified by OTEL_PYTHON_DISABLED_INSTRUMENTATIONS env variable, when using opentelemetry-instrument command.
+  ([#1461](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/1461))
 - Add `fields` to propagators
   ([#1374](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/1374))
 - Add local/remote samplers to parent based sampler

opentelemetry-instrumentation/README.rst

@@ -82,6 +82,12 @@ The code in ``program.py`` needs to use one of the packages for which there is
 an OpenTelemetry integration. For a list of the available integrations please
 check `here <https://opentelemetry-python.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html#integrations>`_
 
+* ``OTEL_PYTHON_DISABLED_INSTRUMENTATIONS``
+
+If set by the user, opentelemetry-instrument will read this environment variable to disable specific instrumentations.
+e.g OTEL_PYTHON_DISABLED_INSTRUMENTATIONS = "requests,django"
+
+
 Examples
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 

opentelemetry-instrumentation/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/auto_instrumentation/sitecustomize.py

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 
 from pkg_resources import iter_entry_points
 
+from opentelemetry.configuration import Configuration
 from opentelemetry.instrumentation.auto_instrumentation.components import (
     initialize_components,
 )
@@ -26,8 +27,19 @@
 
 
 def auto_instrument():
+    package_to_exclude = Configuration().get("DISABLED_INSTRUMENTATIONS", [])
+    if isinstance(package_to_exclude, str):
+        package_to_exclude = package_to_exclude.split(",")
+        # to handle users entering "requests , flask" or "requests, flask" with spaces
+        package_to_exclude = [x.strip() for x in package_to_exclude]
+
     for entry_point in iter_entry_points("opentelemetry_instrumentor"):
         try:
+            if entry_point.name in package_to_exclude:
+                logger.debug(
+                    "Instrumentation skipped for  %s", entry_point.name
+                )
+                continue
             entry_point.load()().instrument()  # type: ignore
             logger.debug("Instrumented %s", entry_point.name)
         except Exception as exc:  # pylint: disable=broad-except