How to automatically record exception information?

[tuhao1020]

Exceptions are thrown in a method, but the details of the exceptions, such as message, line of code, etc., are not recorded in span, can they be automatically recorded when using automatic instrumentation?

[mateuszrzeszutek]

Hey @tuhao1020 ,
Try using a span exporter other than Zipkin - both Jaeger and OTLP preserve full exception details.
In OpenTelemetry, an exception is recorded as a span event. The equivalent of an event in Zipkin is an annotation; however, Zipkin. annotations cannot have attributes. That's why during conversion to Zipkin any span event attributes (exception message, exception stack trace, etc.) are just dropped.

[tuhao1020]

I am using jaeger instead of zipkin in OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER， but exception stack trace still dropped

OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER: jaeger,logging
OTEL_EXPORTER_JAEGER_ENDPOINT: http://jaeger:14268/api/traces

[changliu-wk]

@tuhao1020, are you using @WithSpan annotation?

[tuhao1020]

Sorry, I forgot to update the status, I used a customized jaeger-ui and the details of the exception actually already existed