Help wanted: auto instrumentation for specific instance of requests.Session

[juheise]

Hi folks! I was wondering if there is a way to use the auto instrumentation for the requests library just for a particular instance of requests.Session instead of instrumenting the whole requests library. I want all the usual auto instrumentation for requests, but I want to be able to decide which module is getting instrumented and which isn't. It seems there's some hardwired monkey patching going on, but I'm not 100% sure that I understood correctly. Any advice appreciated, thx.

[lzchen]

@juheise
There is no current way to instrument individual instances of requests.Session. Could a possible work around be to disable certain urls from being traced, similar to flask instrumentation?

[juheise]

unfortunately, blacklisting won't be acceptable for my use case, but white listing would work. Is that possible?

[codeboten]

right i'd imagine you could implement either an inclusion or a blocklist to implement this. the next step is probably to open an issue in the contrib repo. Not sure if this issue captures what you would need: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib#344