Influxdb instrumentation

[abhisesh]

Hi team,

My question relates to #1572. Wanted to submit a PR for this, but while digging through the influxdb java library code, I noticed that okhttp and retrofit libraries are used internally for sending http requests. retrofit is also using okhttp internally.

Here's an example: https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb-client-java/blob/master/client/src/main/java/com/influxdb/client/internal/AbstractInfluxDBClient.java#L75

So does it make sense to implement custom instrumentation for Influxdb, since okhttp instrumentation is already supported?

[laurit]

OkHttp instrumentation provides telemetry with http semantic conventions for influxdb client database semantic conventions might be more appropriate. If you believe that database semantic conventions would provide better telemetry then implementing dedicated instrumentation for influxdb client is the way to go.