Spike: Test OTel Native Instrumentation with NR OTel Span Prototype

[jasonjkeller]

Test whether the #1886 captures spans when using a library that has native (built-in) OTel instrumentation.

[workato-integration]

https://new-relic.atlassian.net/browse/NR-342562

[jasonjkeller]

There’s only a handful of libraries in Java that have native OTel instrumentation, one of which is the elasticsearch Java client which, after testing using the hybrid Java agent, looks to be lighting up our DB UI and distributed traces. It just generates client spans so it doesn’t start transactions on it’s own, but spans will be included in any existing transactions. It also generates the required metrics to light up the Databases UI.

Distributed Trace

Databases

[jasonjkeller]

To demo the above, clone my fork of the elasticsearch realworld-app and follow the NEW_RELIC_README.