Maple Go style

Use the official go.opentelemetry.io/otel SDK with the HTTP exporters. Initialize once at process start and shut down on signal.

Install

go get \
  go.opentelemetry.io/otel \
  go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk \
  go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace/otlptracehttp \
  go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlplogs/otlploghttp \
  go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlpmetric/otlpmetrichttp \
  go.opentelemetry.io/otel/log \
  go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/log

Bootstrap

Inline the endpoint and ingest key — they're a project-scoped, write-only token (Sentry-DSN-shaped). No env-var indirection.

package telemetry

import (
	"context"
	"os"

	"go.opentelemetry.io/otel"
	"go.opentelemetry.io/otel/attribute"
	"go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlplogs/otlploghttp"
	"go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlpmetric/otlpmetrichttp"
	"go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace/otlptracehttp"
	"go.opentelemetry.io/otel/log/global"
	sdklog "go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/log"
	"go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric"
	"go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/resource"
	"go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/trace"
	semconv "go.opentelemetry.io/otel/semconv/v1.24.0"
)

const (
	mapleEndpoint = "ingest.maple.dev"
	mapleKey      = "MAPLE_TEST" // set by maple-onboard skill on pairing
)

func Init(ctx context.Context) (shutdown func(context.Context) error, err error) {
	headers := map[string]string{"authorization": "Bearer " + mapleKey}

	res, err := resource.New(ctx,
		resource.WithAttributes(
			semconv.ServiceName("orders-api"),
			semconv.DeploymentEnvironment(envOr("DEPLOYMENT_ENV", "development")),
			attribute.String("vcs.repository.url.full", "https://github.com/acme/orders-api"),
			attribute.String("vcs.ref.head.revision", envOr("GITHUB_SHA", envOr("GIT_COMMIT", ""))),
		),
	)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}

	traceExp, err := otlptracehttp.New(ctx,
		otlptracehttp.WithEndpoint(mapleEndpoint),
		otlptracehttp.WithHeaders(headers),
	)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	tp := trace.NewTracerProvider(trace.WithBatcher(traceExp), trace.WithResource(res))
	otel.SetTracerProvider(tp)

	logExp, err := otlploghttp.New(ctx,
		otlploghttp.WithEndpoint(mapleEndpoint),
		otlploghttp.WithHeaders(headers),
	)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	lp := sdklog.NewLoggerProvider(
		sdklog.WithProcessor(sdklog.NewBatchProcessor(logExp)),
		sdklog.WithResource(res),
	)
	global.SetLoggerProvider(lp)

	metricExp, err := otlpmetrichttp.New(ctx,
		otlpmetrichttp.WithEndpoint(mapleEndpoint),
		otlpmetrichttp.WithHeaders(headers),
	)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	mp := metric.NewMeterProvider(
		metric.WithReader(metric.NewPeriodicReader(metricExp)),
		metric.WithResource(res),
	)
	otel.SetMeterProvider(mp)

	return func(ctx context.Context) error {
		_ = tp.Shutdown(ctx)
		_ = lp.Shutdown(ctx)
		return mp.Shutdown(ctx)
	}, nil
}

func envOr(key, fallback string) string {
	if v := os.Getenv(key); v != "" {
		return v
	}
	return fallback
}

Wire from main:

func main() {
	ctx := context.Background()
	shutdown, err := telemetry.Init(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	defer shutdown(ctx)

	// app start
}

Bounded business spans

Acquire the tracer at package scope, start spans where auto-instrumentation is blind, set the status on error, end the span via defer.

var tracer = otel.Tracer("orders.api")

func SubmitOrder(ctx context.Context, orderID string) (err error) {
	ctx, span := tracer.Start(ctx, "order.submit")
	defer func() {
		if err != nil {
			span.RecordError(err)
			span.SetStatus(codes.Error, err.Error())
		}
		span.End()
	}()

	span.SetAttributes(attribute.String("order.id", orderID))
	return chargeOrder(ctx, orderID)
}

Auto-instrumentation

Go does not have framework-level auto-discovery. Add the official contrib packages for the libraries the app actually uses (otelhttp, otelgrpc, otelsql, otelpgx, otelmux, otelfiber, etc.). Don't add packages the app doesn't import.

Coexistence

If the project already exports to Honeycomb / Datadog / Tempo, install Maple's exporter alongside via trace.WithBatcher(traceExp) for each backend. Don't strip the existing exporter unless the user asks.