How to ignore certain request with more complex conditions?

[davendu]

We are using @opentelemetry/instrumentation-http. Some scanners are running in our system (including health checkers, probers, ...) and I want to ignore them. I wrote a function like this:

const ShouldIgnoreRequest = (request: IncomingMessage): boolean => false;

ignoreIncomingPaths seems not enough for us, and using suppressTracing in startIncomingSpanHook seems not working, since it's not the same context. So is there any way I can call this function?

[dyladan]

Yeah the suppress tracing context flag probably doesn't work because the http autoinstrumentation starts the span before you would ever have a chance to set that property.

There is no spec for things like this yet, but there is an instrumentation sig. For now, we might be able to implement a configurable request filter that takes the raw request or something. Others have requested similar in the past.