CLI Open Telemetry

Collecting Telemetry information about the CLI Commands Usage helps to understand and improve the tools

Open Telemetry is the vendor agnostic standard to collect and process telemetry information

This library helps to collect the telemetry data from CLI Tools and export the data to the OpenTelemetry Collector backend

Usage

// bin/cli.js

require("cli-opentelemetry").tele(
  "cli", // CLI Name
  require("path").join(__dirname, "../dist/index.js"), // Path to Javascript File, CLI Entry point
  "1.0.0", // version of the CLI
  "http://localhost:4318/v1/traces", // URL to OTLP ProtoBuf endpoint (Optional, defaults to http://localhost:4318/v1/traces)
  {}, // Headers to be send to OTLP Endpoint (Optional, defaults to emptry object)
  2000, // timeout in ms , to end the span if the underlying CLI takes more time
  "node" // Program to run, (Optional, defaults to node)
);

Data Collected

• service.name - CLI Name + "-cli"
• service.version - CLI Version
• process.command_args - process.argv
• os.type - process.platform
• device.id - uuid, uniquely identifying a device
  • generated and stored in %TEMP%/sodaru-ot-id file
• city - City Name from where the cli is executed
  • generated and stored in %TEMP%/sodaru-ot-c each day
• otel.status_code - OK or ERROR, based on the CLI result
• otel.status_description - stderr from CLI, if CLI fails

Environmental Variables

• CLI_OPEN_TELEMETRY_DIAGNOSE - If set to true, Prints telemetry debug logs to console
• CLI_OPEN_TELEMETRY_DISABLE - If set to anything other than 0, The telemetry export is switched Off

Support

This project is a part of the Open Source Initiative from Sodaru Technologies

Write an email to opensource@sodaru.com for queries on this project