Capability to add "logs" to spans

[cyrille-leclerc]

Problem Description

I want to manually add "events" / "logs" to my spans in my pipeline, similar to manually creating span events or log messages when instrumenting applications with distributed tracing.

Desire to enable more logs without modifying the pipeline.

Example use cases

• ...

Example with the OpenTelemetry APIs for Java

Span currentSpan = Span.current();
currentSpan.addEvent("my event", ...); // TODO realistic example

See Other Problem Statements

• Capability to manually create spans #90
• Capability to manually add attributes to spans #91

See also

• Allow logging via OpenTelemetry quarkusio/quarkus#9916 Allow logging via OpenTelemetry #9916

Proposed Solutions

Correlate pipeline logs with traces

• Enrich Jenkins pipeline logs with the trace_id and span_id + let the observability backend correlated logs and traces

addSpanEvent pipeline step

Similar to the OpenTelemetry API io.opentelemetry.api.trace.Span#addEvent(java.lang.String, io.opentelemetry.api.common.Attributes)

[cyrille-leclerc]

Duplicate of #245