Basic Context

These examples show how context is propagated through Spans in OpenTelemetry. There are three different examples:

• implicit_context: Shows how starting a span implicitly creates context.
• child_context: Shows how context is propagated through child spans.
• async_context: Shows how context can be shared in another coroutine.

The source files of these examples are available :scm_web:here <docs/examples/basic_context/>.

Installation

.. code-block:: sh

pip install opentelemetry-api
pip install opentelemetry-sdk

Run the Example

.. code-block:: sh

python <example_name>.py

The output will be shown in the console.

Useful links

• OpenTelemetry_
• :doc:../../api/trace

.. _OpenTelemetry: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/