[Question]: Doubts about the trace generated by this plugin

[lays147]

Kong Version

3.6.1

Plugin Version

0.2.0-1

On which environment your Kong instance is running?

Other

Plugin Configuration

_format_version: "3.0"

_info:
  defaults: {}
  select_tags:
    - ddtrace

plugins:
  - name: ddtrace
    tags:
      - ddtrace
    config:
      service_name: my-api-gateway
      environment: production
      version: v0.1.1
      static_tags:
        - name: app
          value: my-api-gateway

What happened?

I'm new to using traces in Datadog, so here is a question:

With the plugin enabled, the traces are not being correlated with the kong access log. The upstream server logs shows the traces as from this service, but the logs of the service itself does not contain any trace.

The kong access log uses a custom nginx format, and I don't know if this impacts the datadog tracing.

Is there something that I'm missing?

[dmehala]

Hi!

For traces to be correlated with logs, the log needs to contains trace context. As of now, trace context are not automatically, nor can be manually injected to Kong logs.

In case you really wants that feature, I strongly advise to create a support ticket asking for the feature.

I close this one as it's a duplicates of #25.

Thank you @lays147.