feat: skip tracing for health and metrics endpoints

Health check and metrics endpoints are frequently polled and don't
provide meaningful trace data. This change skips OpenTelemetry span
creation for:
- /health/* (liveness, readiness checks)
- /metrics (Prometheus metrics)

These endpoints still record Prometheus metrics (request count, latency,
in-flight requests) but no longer create trace spans, reducing tracing
noise and storage costs.

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Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
Chris Coutinho
2025-11-10 07:24:27 +01:00
co-authored by Claude
parent 640a7818f9
commit b32324cb76
@@ -66,7 +66,11 @@ class ObservabilityMiddleware(BaseHTTPMiddleware):
# Record start time
start_time = time.time()
# Skip tracing for health/metrics endpoints to reduce noise
should_trace = not (path.startswith("/health/") or path == "/metrics")
try:
if should_trace:
# Create span for request (OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation will create parent span)
with trace_operation(
f"HTTP {method} {endpoint}",
@@ -92,6 +96,20 @@ class ObservabilityMiddleware(BaseHTTPMiddleware):
duration=duration,
)
return response
else:
# No tracing for health/metrics endpoints, but still record metrics
response = await call_next(request)
# Record metrics
duration = time.time() - start_time
self._record_request_metrics(
method=method,
endpoint=endpoint,
status_code=response.status_code,
duration=duration,
)
return response
except Exception: