Support for OpenTracing

Consensys / web3signer

Web3Signer is an open-source signing service capable of signing on multiple platforms (Ethereum1 and 2, Filecoin) using private keys stored in an external vault, or encrypted on a disk.

https://docs.web3signer.consensys.net/

Apache License 2.0

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Support for OpenTracing #616

Open screwyprof opened 2 years ago

screwyprof commented 2 years ago

It would be great if web3signer could have tracing support.

The important use cases / workflows would be:

deposit payload signature request
VEM signature request
slashing protection triggered

This kind of tracing support will improve visibility of the end-to-end process for key events - these are sensitive processes and if things go wrong, the better our transparency, the quicker we'll be able to resolve

non-fungible-nelson commented 1 year ago

@beetrootkid - what do you think the priority of something like this would be?

beetrootkid commented 1 year ago

@non-fungible-nelson - I do think this is important. (disclosure: @screwyprof is in my team) It will tell us not only about when things go wrong but also help identify where time is being spent. As we ramp up active keys, then this might well become a vital piece of data...