Tracing

perspective-tracing is the OpenTelemetry-backed observability surface. Powered by engine-open-telemetry plus the Camel OpenTelemetry component, it exposes spans, metrics, and traces for executed services.

Layout

• Traces - recent traces; click to expand the span tree.
• Spans - span detail with timing, attributes, and parent / child links.
• Metrics - counters and histograms emitted by the runtime and by user code.

Configuration

Tracing is configured through standard OTLP environment variables; common ones:

Variable	Purpose
OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT	OTLP collector endpoint (gRPC or HTTP).
OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_PROTOCOL	grpc or http/protobuf.
OTEL_SERVICE_NAME	Service name reported on every span.
OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES	Static resource attributes (key=value,...).
OTEL_TRACES_SAMPLER	Sampler (always_on, parentbased_traceidratio, ...).

Camel routes inherit the Camel OpenTelemetry component automatically when the engine is on the classpath.

Related

• OpenTelemetry setup
• Operations perspective