Context

We want to be able to narrow down into all of the requests during one of our more important processes in Rafiki:
the outgoing payment lifecycle. Now that we have traces, we can achieve this by manually instrumenting a trace called something like outgoing_payment_worker.

Essentially, we want a trace to cover the handlePaymentLifecycle method in packages/backend/src/open_payments/payment/outgoing/worker.ts.

We can use tracerProvider in the packages/backend/src/telemetry/index.ts which exposes tracerProvider.getTracer(...).startActiveSpan(...) to be able to manually instrument a span.

The docs for the function can be found here.

A consideration: because telemetry is optional, you might need to create the traceProvider outside of if (Config.enableTelemetryTraces) conditional

Tasks

• Manually instrument a outgoing_payment_worker trace