README.md

OpenTelemetry - OpenTracing Shim

The OpenTracing shim is a bridge layer from OpenTelemetry to the OpenTracing API. It takes OpenTelemetry Tracer and exposes it as an implementation of an OpenTracing Tracer.

Usage

There are 2 ways to expose an OpenTracing tracer:

1. From the global OpenTelemetry configuration:

   Tracer tracer = OpenTracingShim.createTracerShim();

2. From a provided OpenTelemetry instance:

   Tracer tracer = OpenTracingShim.createTracerShim(openTelemetry);

Optionally register the tracer as the OpenTracing GlobalTracer:

GlobalTracer.registerIfAbsent(tracer);