OpenTelemetry Agent Without Auto Init

Using OpenTelemetry with sentry-opentelemetry-agent and AUTO_INIT disabled.

You may also disable automatic initialization of Sentry in sentry-opentelemetry-agent by setting SENTRY_AUTO_INIT=false as an environment variable. Doing this will mean you'll either have to use another Sentry integration that performs initialization, (for example Spring Boot), or initialize Sentry manually.

You can download the latest version of the sentry-opentelemetry-agent-8.8.0.jar from MavenCentral. It's also available as a ZIP containing the JAR used on this page on GitHub.

This java command shows how to run your application using sentry-opentelemetry-agent:

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SENTRY_AUTO_INIT=false JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS="-javaagent:sentry-opentelemetry-agent-8.8.0.jar" java -jar your-application.jar

You can combine this with a Sentry integration, that performs the initialization for you or call Sentry.init manually:

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import io.sentry.Sentry;

Sentry.init(options -> {
  options.setDsn("https://examplePublicKey@o0.ingest.sentry.io/0");
  options.setTracesSampleRate(1.0);
});

To enable debug logging in Sentry, set SENTRY_DEBUG=true as an environment variable or add debug=true to your sentry.properties.

To show debug output for OpenTelemetry, add -Dotel.javaagent.debug=true to the java command.

If you're not using any OpenTelemetry exporters besides Sentry, add the following environment variables to turn off exporters and stop receiving error messages about servers not being reachable in the logs.

Example log message:

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ERROR io.opentelemetry.exporter.internal.grpc.OkHttpGrpcExporter - Failed to export spans. The request could not be executed. Full error message: Failed to connect to localhost/[0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1]:4317
ERROR io.opentelemetry.exporter.internal.grpc.OkHttpGrpcExporter - Failed to export metrics. The request could not be executed. Full error message: Failed to connect to localhost/[0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1]:4317
ERROR io.opentelemetry.exporter.internal.http.HttpExporter - Failed to export logs. The request could not be executed. Full error message: Failed to connect to localhost/[0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1]:4318

To turn off traces exporting, set OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER=none as an environment variable per OpenTelemetry GitHub.

To turn off metrics exporting, set OTEL_METRICS_EXPORTER=none as an environment variable per OpenTelemetry GitHub.

To turn off log exporting, set OTEL_LOGS_EXPORTER=none as an environment variable per OpenTelemetry GitHub.

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