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azure-core-tracing-opentelemetry

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Microsoft Azure Core OpenTelemetry plugin Library for Python

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01 May 2026
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7 years old
13 releases · first in 2020

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13 releases since 2020

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Releases

1.0.0b131 May 2026pre-release2 sources agree
Remapped certain attributes to converge with OpenTelemetry semantic conventions version 1.23.1 (#34089):
Breaking Changes

Remapped certain attributes to converge with OpenTelemetry semantic conventions version 1.23.1 (#34089):

http.method -> http.request.method

http.status_code -> http.response.status_code

net.peer.name -> server.address

net.peer.port -> server.port

http.url -> url.full

Other Changes

Python 3.8 and 3.9 are no longer supported. Please use Python version 3.10 or later.
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If a span exits with an exception, the exception name is now recorded in the error.type attribute.

Features Added

If a span exits with an exception, the exception name is now recorded in the error.type attribute. (#34619)
Added support for passing a schema version to fetch available attribute mappings and set the schema URL on the tracer's instrumentation scope. (#40161)
Added additional span suppression logic to prevent unnecessary spans from being created. (#39994)
- SpanKind.INTERNAL spans are suppressed if their parent span is of type SpanKind.INTERNAL, SpanKind.CLIENT, or SpanKind.PRODUCER.
Update OpenTelemetrySpan.change_context to also accept spans of type OpenTelemetrySpan. (#39994)

Bugs Fixed

Fixed an issue where the original context was not properly restored after exiting an OpenTelemetrySpan context in certain scenarios. (#39994)

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1.0.0b117 Sept 2023pre-release2 sources agree

Fixed OpenTelemetrySpan typing to correctly implement the AbstractSpan protocol.

Bugs Fixed

Fixed OpenTelemetrySpan typing to correctly implement the AbstractSpan protocol. (#31943)

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1.0.0b1011 Jul 2023pre-release2 sources agree

Enabled the use of the context keyword argument for passing in context headers of a parent span. This will be the parent context used when creating th

Features Added

Enabled the use of the context keyword argument for passing in context headers of a parent span. This will be the parent context used when creating the span. (#30411)

Breaking Changes

Remapped certain attributes to converge with OpenTelemetry semantic conventions (#29203):
- x-ms-client-request-id -> az.client_request_id,
- x-ms-request-id -> az.service_request_id,
- http.user_agent -> user_agent.original,
- message_bus.destination -> messaging.destination.name,
- peer.address -> net.peer.name,

Other Changes

Python 2.7 is no longer supported. Please use Python version 3.7 or later.
Nested internal spans are now suppressed with just the outermost internal span being recorded. Nested client spans will be children of the outermost span. (#29616)
When client spans are created, a flag is set to indicate that automatic HTTP instrumentation should be suppressed. Since azure-core already instruments HTTP calls, this prevents duplicate spans from being produced. (#29616)
Schema URL is now set on the tracer's instrumentation scope. (#30014)
Minimum opentelemetry-api dependency bumped to 1.12.0.
Minimum azure-core dependency bumped to 1.24.0.