[exporter/awsxray] Feature Gate to Allow fully random Trace IDs in XRay Exporter

.chloggen/xray-exporter-allow-random-trace-id.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+# Use this changelog template to create an entry for release notes.
+
+# One of 'breaking', 'deprecation', 'new_component', 'enhancement', 'bug_fix'
+change_type: enhancement
+
+# The name of the component, or a single word describing the area of concern, (e.g. filelogreceiver)
+component: awsxrayexporter
+
+# A brief description of the change.  Surround your text with quotes ("") if it needs to start with a backtick (`).
+note: "add `exporter.awsxray.skiptimestampvalidation` Alpha feature gate to remove xray timestamp restriction on first 32 bits of trace id"
+
+# Mandatory: One or more tracking issues related to the change. You can use the PR number here if no issue exists.
+issues: [26041]
+
+# (Optional) One or more lines of additional information to render under the primary note.
+# These lines will be padded with 2 spaces and then inserted directly into the document.
+# Use pipe (|) for multiline entries.
+subtext:
+
+# If your change doesn't affect end users or the exported elements of any package,
+# you should instead start your pull request title with [chore] or use the "Skip Changelog" label.
+# Optional: The change log or logs in which this entry should be included.
+# e.g. '[user]' or '[user, api]'
+# Include 'user' if the change is relevant to end users.
+# Include 'api' if there is a change to a library API.
+# Default: '[user]'
+change_logs: [user]

exporter/awsxrayexporter/awsxray.go

@@ -109,7 +109,8 @@ func extractResourceSpans(config component.Config, logger *zap.Logger, td ptrace
 					spans.At(k), resource,
 					config.(*Config).IndexedAttributes,
 					config.(*Config).IndexAllAttributes,
-					config.(*Config).LogGroupNames)
+					config.(*Config).LogGroupNames,
+					config.(*Config).skipTimestampValidation)
 				if localErr != nil {
 					logger.Debug("Error translating span.", zap.Error(localErr))
 					continue

exporter/awsxrayexporter/config.go

@@ -24,4 +24,7 @@ type Config struct {
 	LogGroupNames []string `mapstructure:"aws_log_groups"`
 	// TelemetryConfig contains the options for telemetry collection.
 	TelemetryConfig telemetry.Config `mapstructure:"telemetry,omitempty"`
+
+	// skipTimestampValidation if enabled, will skip timestamp validation logic on the trace ID
+	skipTimestampValidation bool
 }

exporter/awsxrayexporter/config_test.go

@@ -45,9 +45,10 @@ func TestLoadConfig(t *testing.T) {
 					ResourceARN:           "arn:aws:ec2:us-east1:123456789:instance/i-293hiuhe0u",
 					RoleARN:               "arn:aws:iam::123456789:role/monitoring-EKS-NodeInstanceRole",
 				},
-				IndexedAttributes:  []string{"indexed_attr_0", "indexed_attr_1"},
-				IndexAllAttributes: false,
-				LogGroupNames:      []string{"group1", "group2"},
+				IndexedAttributes:       []string{"indexed_attr_0", "indexed_attr_1"},
+				IndexAllAttributes:      false,
+				LogGroupNames:           []string{"group1", "group2"},
+				skipTimestampValidation: false,
 			},
 		},
 	}

exporter/awsxrayexporter/factory.go

@@ -8,12 +8,19 @@ import (
 
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/component"
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/exporter"
+	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/featuregate"
 
 	"github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/exporter/awsxrayexporter/internal/metadata"
 	"github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/internal/aws/awsutil"
 	"github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/internal/aws/xray/telemetry"
 )
 
+var skipTimestampValidationFeatureGate = featuregate.GlobalRegistry().MustRegister(
+	"exporter.awsxray.skiptimestampvalidation",
+	featuregate.StageAlpha,
+	featuregate.WithRegisterDescription("Remove XRay's timestamp validation on first 32 bits of trace ID"),
+	featuregate.WithRegisterFromVersion("v0.84.0"))
+
 // NewFactory creates a factory for AWS-Xray exporter.
 func NewFactory() exporter.Factory {
 	return exporter.NewFactory(
@@ -24,7 +31,8 @@ func NewFactory() exporter.Factory {
 
 func createDefaultConfig() component.Config {
 	return &Config{
-		AWSSessionSettings: awsutil.CreateDefaultSessionConfig(),
+		AWSSessionSettings:      awsutil.CreateDefaultSessionConfig(),
+		skipTimestampValidation: skipTimestampValidationFeatureGate.IsEnabled(),
 	}
 }
 

exporter/awsxrayexporter/go.mod

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ require (
 	go.opentelemetry.io/collector/confmap v0.83.0
 	go.opentelemetry.io/collector/consumer v0.83.0
 	go.opentelemetry.io/collector/exporter v0.83.0
+	go.opentelemetry.io/collector/featuregate v1.0.0-rcv0014
 	go.opentelemetry.io/collector/pdata v1.0.0-rcv0014
 	go.opentelemetry.io/collector/semconv v0.83.0
 	go.uber.org/zap v1.25.0
@@ -36,7 +37,6 @@ require (
 	go.opentelemetry.io/collector v0.83.0 // indirect
 	go.opentelemetry.io/collector/config/configtelemetry v0.83.0 // indirect
 	go.opentelemetry.io/collector/extension v0.83.0 // indirect
-	go.opentelemetry.io/collector/featuregate v1.0.0-rcv0014 // indirect
 	go.opentelemetry.io/collector/processor v0.83.0 // indirect
 	go.opentelemetry.io/collector/receiver v0.83.0 // indirect
 	go.opentelemetry.io/otel v1.16.0 // indirect

exporter/awsxrayexporter/internal/translator/segment.go

@@ -62,8 +62,8 @@ var (
 )
 
 // MakeSegmentDocumentString converts an OpenTelemetry Span to an X-Ray Segment and then serialzies to JSON
-func MakeSegmentDocumentString(span ptrace.Span, resource pcommon.Resource, indexedAttrs []string, indexAllAttrs bool, logGroupNames []string) (string, error) {
-	segment, err := MakeSegment(span, resource, indexedAttrs, indexAllAttrs, logGroupNames)
+func MakeSegmentDocumentString(span ptrace.Span, resource pcommon.Resource, indexedAttrs []string, indexAllAttrs bool, logGroupNames []string, skipTimestampValidation bool) (string, error) {
+	segment, err := MakeSegment(span, resource, indexedAttrs, indexAllAttrs, logGroupNames, skipTimestampValidation)
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", err
 	}
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ func MakeSegmentDocumentString(span ptrace.Span, resource pcommon.Resource, inde
 }
 
 // MakeSegment converts an OpenTelemetry Span to an X-Ray Segment
-func MakeSegment(span ptrace.Span, resource pcommon.Resource, indexedAttrs []string, indexAllAttrs bool, logGroupNames []string) (*awsxray.Segment, error) {
+func MakeSegment(span ptrace.Span, resource pcommon.Resource, indexedAttrs []string, indexAllAttrs bool, logGroupNames []string, skipTimestampValidation bool) (*awsxray.Segment, error) {
 	var segmentType string
 
 	storeResource := true
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ func MakeSegment(span ptrace.Span, resource pcommon.Resource, indexedAttrs []str
 	}
 
 	// convert trace id
-	traceID, err := convertToAmazonTraceID(span.TraceID())
+	traceID, err := convertToAmazonTraceID(span.TraceID(), skipTimestampValidation)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ func MakeSegment(span ptrace.Span, resource pcommon.Resource, indexedAttrs []str
 		sqlfiltered, sql                                   = makeSQL(span, awsfiltered)
 		additionalAttrs                                    = addSpecialAttributes(sqlfiltered, indexedAttrs, attributes)
 		user, annotations, metadata                        = makeXRayAttributes(additionalAttrs, resource, storeResource, indexedAttrs, indexAllAttrs)
-		spanLinks, makeSpanLinkErr                         = makeSpanLinks(span.Links())
+		spanLinks, makeSpanLinkErr                         = makeSpanLinks(span.Links(), skipTimestampValidation)
 		name                                               string
 		namespace                                          string
 	)
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ func determineAwsOrigin(resource pcommon.Resource) string {
 //   - For example, 10:00AM December 2nd, 2016 PST in epoch time is 1480615200 seconds,
 //     or 58406520 in hexadecimal.
 //   - A 96-bit identifier for the trace, globally unique, in 24 hexadecimal digits.
-func convertToAmazonTraceID(traceID pcommon.TraceID) (string, error) {
+func convertToAmazonTraceID(traceID pcommon.TraceID, skipTimestampValidation bool) (string, error) {
 	const (
 		// maxAge of 28 days.  AWS has a 30 day limit, let's be conservative rather than
 		// hit the limit
@@ -313,13 +313,16 @@ func convertToAmazonTraceID(traceID pcommon.TraceID) (string, error) {
 		b            = [4]byte{}
 	)
 
-	// If AWS traceID originally came from AWS, no problem.  However, if oc generated
-	// the traceID, then the epoch may be outside the accepted AWS range of within the
-	// past 30 days.
-	//
-	// In that case, we return invalid traceid error
-	if delta := epochNow - epoch; delta > maxAge || delta < -maxSkew {
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("invalid xray traceid: %s", traceID)
+	// If feature gate is enabled, skip the timestamp validation logic
+	if !skipTimestampValidation {
+		// If AWS traceID originally came from AWS, no problem.  However, if oc generated
+		// the traceID, then the epoch may be outside the accepted AWS range of within the
+		// past 30 days.
+		//
+		// In that case, we return invalid traceid error
+		if delta := epochNow - epoch; delta > maxAge || delta < -maxSkew {
+			return "", fmt.Errorf("invalid xray traceid: %s", traceID)
+		}
 	}
 
 	binary.BigEndian.PutUint32(b[0:4], uint32(epoch))