Support collecting logs outside of spans

[geekflyer]

Hi,

just came across this library in search how to best integrate logs+traces from a Rust app into axiom.
One of the stated limitations in the README is that this library does not support collecting logs outside of spans - presumably because it only supports the otel trace protocol.

Anyways - I'd suggest to have a look at integrating https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-rust/tree/main/opentelemetry-appender-tracing which in my understanding would allow collecting tracing events that are emitted from outside a span.

[darach]

Hi Christian @geekflyer ,

Thank you for the suggestion, we'll take a look and see what we can do.

Cheers,

Darach.

[darach]

Hi Christian @geekflyer,

I had a look into this yesterday and this morning. The release of v0.21 of opentelemetry-rust is not binary compatible with v0.20 that we depend upon. But, once we schedule that work its a good enhancement, so i've labelled it as such.

Thank you for suggesting the enhancement 👍. Let us know if this is something you'd be interesting in working on and contributing! 🤩

Cheers,

Darach.