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Messaging batch-publish: make per-message tracing disableable #1273

Open lmolkova opened 1 month ago

lmolkova commented 1 month ago

Based on the discussion in https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/issues/4123, we should recommend instrumentation libraries to let users control per-message tracing:

it should be possible to opt-out of per-message tracing (via sampling or tracer suppression)
if user opts-out, we can fallback to injecting ambient context or publish span context - this should be specified.
maybe we can call out that for single-publish scenarios per-message span SHOULD NOT be created

Currently spec leaves it up to the instrumentation library to decide whether to trace messages independently or not.