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tracer: only swap underlying SpanProcessor, instead of entire tracers#47428

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The new architecture of internal/tracer:

  1. Creates a TracerProvider immediately. This provider is preconfigured with service metadata, but does not have a SpanProcessor.
  2. Creates an OpenTracing bridge using TracerProvider, such that we have an OpenTracing Tracer and an OpenTelemetry TracerProvider that bridges the two APIs. We register both as global defaults.
  3. On site config initialization, we register a new SpanProcessor onto the global TracerProvider.
  4. From this point on, site config updates:
    a. Create a new SpanProcessor based on site config
    b. Register the new SpanProcessor, which starts processing
    c. Remove the previous SpanProcessor, which flushes it and shuts it down as well

Previously, we mimicked the old opentracing setup where we swapped the global tracer, using a similar approach in OpenTelemetry to set up the global TracerProvider. In OpenTelemetry, registering and unregistering SpanProcessors is the correct way to do this it seems - the swapping approach causes configuration propagation issues such as XSAM/otelsql#115 (allowing us to revert back to upstream: https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/47429) and possibly https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/issues/42515 . This correct approach was pointed out in XSAM/otelsql#115 (comment), and makes the setup easier to reason with:

  • the previously swappable tracers now no longer need to have a locked underlying implementation, they just add logging now
  • we don't need to update 2 implementations, we make the update at a lower level so that both ends of the OT/OTel bridge are updated
  • debug mode is managed through a mutable atomic bool, instead of through recreating entire tracers

Test plan

Unit tests assert that span processor updates are propagated. Exporter setup is functionally unchanged

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Codenotify: Notifying subscribers in CODENOTIFY files for diff 8c63877361f8028ced52389639f79c98cf081ed0...c9e6835ba8d417145fae1683b35b414aa63b2cf0.

Notify File(s)
@keegancsmith internal/tracer/doc.go
internal/tracer/logged_ot.go
internal/tracer/logged_otel.go
internal/tracer/otel.go
internal/tracer/otel_should_trace.go
internal/tracer/switchable_ot.go
internal/tracer/switchable_otel.go
internal/tracer/tracer.go
internal/tracer/watch.go
internal/tracer/watch_test.go
@sourcegraph/dev-experience internal/tracer/doc.go
internal/tracer/logged_ot.go
internal/tracer/logged_otel.go
internal/tracer/otel.go
internal/tracer/otel_should_trace.go
internal/tracer/switchable_ot.go
internal/tracer/switchable_otel.go
internal/tracer/tracer.go
internal/tracer/watch.go
internal/tracer/watch_test.go

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Thank you for taking care of that 🙏

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Problem: the label i-acknowledge-this-goes-into-the-release is absent.
👉 What to do: we're in the next Sourcegraph release code freeze period. If you are 100% sure your changes should get released or provide no risk to the release, add the label your PR with i-acknowledge-this-goes-into-the-release.

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Putting this PR on hold until branch cut!

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@bobheadxi branch has been cut, if you want to resume this one :)

@bobheadxi bobheadxi force-pushed the tracer-only-swap-processor branch from 27f3961 to c2a839a Compare February 21, 2023 17:14
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This is enabled by https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/47428
- swapping `SpanProcessor` instead of `TracerProvider` means that we can
correctly propagate configuration changes to `Tracer` instances, so that
we no longer need XSAM/otelsql#115 and can
revert back to upstream. Switching to upstream, which has moved
considerably since we forked it, necessitates a few other
OpenTelemetry-related dependency upgrades as well (split out from
https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/47126)

Whether updates are work is tested in
https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/47428

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