clj-otel 2022-05-09 | Slack Archive

frank19:05:13

Has anyone had any experiences with the instrumentation agent increasing startup times significantly? It doesn't seem to make a difference on my laptop, but application startup time in AWS fargate has increased significantly. I've worked around this for now by setting OTEL_INSTRUMENTATION_COMMON_DEFAULT_ENABLED=false and then opting into each of the instrumentation types individually, which seems to help. It still takes longer to start up than without the agent, but it's something.

steffan21:05:35

For questions on OpenTelemetry not specific to clj-otel, you'll be more likely to get help in one of the OpenTelemetry channels in the CNCF Slack. I suggest #otel-java-instrumentation or #otel-java. See details about the Slack here : https://opentelemetry.io/community/

Louise Klodt08:09:53

Hi @U06M4ST0F, we're experiencing the same issue with increased start-up times after adding the auto-instrumentation agent to our Clojure apps. Disabling defaults and enabling only what is needed (as you suggested above), did help to reduce the start-up times back to sane levels. Another option is to ditch the auto-agent and manually instrument, though that comes with obvious other trade-offs.

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