Duration as span attribute for Pipeline Step Span

[rangamani54]

What feature do you want to see added?

Right now, we have a span attribute for Pipeline duration which is ci.pipeline.run.durationMillis, can we have a similar kind of attribute for pipeline step spans as well? I can see the duration of the span as metadata in tempo, but can we have it as a span attribute?

Upstream changes

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Are you interested in contributing this feature?

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[cyrille-leclerc]

Can you please share with us why you use the attribute ci.pipeline.run.durationMillis rather than the duration of the build span?

I forgot why we ci.pipeline.run.durationMillis instead of just relying on the duration of the BUILD - *** span. I'm wondering if there is somethign related to the time spent in the build queue.

[rangamani54]

But the duration is not the span attribute, so that we can't use somewhere else like generating span metrics.

And also in the similar way ci.pipeline.rundurationMillis
We need it for child/step spans.

But anyway, I found to do with transform with context span to calculate span duration and set it as an attribute.

[mrh666]

Hi @cyrille-leclerc , we badly need to have those trace attributes as a metrics in Dynatrace:
ci.pipeline.id
ci.pipeline.name
ci.pipeline.run.*
ci.pipeline.type

and we didn't find any way to pass those to Dynatrace. I can't define calculated metrics based on request attributes, because we have only trace attribute. And all existent ci.pipeline.run.* metrics are counters and doesn't have dimensions based on which I can visualize/notify/get metric event for Jenkins build.

I'll highly appreciate if you can tell me if it's doable or not? And point me to some doc or tell me if we can have those in Dynatrace.

[mrh666]

@cyrille-leclerc I'll rephrase, on that page https://plugins.jenkins.io/opentelemetry/ there is a screenshot of kibana https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jenkinsci/opentelemetry-plugin/master/docs/images/kibana_jenkins_overview_dashboard.png with all graphs I need, e.g. job duration, failed steps, long steps, etc. How can we get those metrics exported to Dynatrace?

[rangamani54]

I made a Jenkins Build Dashboard from span metrics generated from Tempo. I will soon publish that dashboard with an article

[mrh666]

@rangamani54 Any chance you can point me to that Tempo doc?

[rangamani54]

Metrics generator is a component in tempo, you can generate metrics from spans
https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/metrics-generator/