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# OpentelemetryTelemetry
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A utility library for creating OpenTelemery spans from telemetry events.
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## Purpose
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Most libraries in the BEAM ecosystem leverage [telemetry](https://github.com/beam-telemetry/telemetry) events for exposing
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event hook points for monitoring that library. While OpenTelemetry is a great project,
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it is still one specification for monitoring software and it isn't
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reasonable to ask library authors to support multiple conventions.
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OpentelemetryTelemetry provides mechanisms for otel instrumentation libraries
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to leverage telemetry events for creating and managing spans. The instrumentation library
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is then able to leverage the telemetry measurements and metadata for deriving
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spans, adding attributes, set span names, etc.
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### What Opentelemetry is Not
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This library is only intended to provide utilities for working with telemetry
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events to instrumentation libraries. As such, it should not be used directly
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within your application code where the OpenTelemery API library should be leveraged.
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## Installation
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If [available in Hex](https://hex.pm/docs/publish), the package can be installed
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by adding `opentelemetry_telemetry` to your list of dependencies:
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```erlang
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{deps, [
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{opentelemetry_telemetry, "~> 1.0.0-beta.6"}
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]}.
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```
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```elixir
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def deps do
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[
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{:opentelemetry_telemetry, "~> 1.0.0-beta.6"}
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]
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end
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```
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Documentation can be generated with [ExDoc](https://github.com/elixir-lang/ex_doc)
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and published on [HexDocs](https://hexdocs.pm). Once published, the docs can
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be found at [https://hexdocs.pm/opentelemetry_telemetry](https://hexdocs.pm/opentelemetry_telemetry).
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