SQS auto-instrumentation not working

[eduardborges]

I instrumented my NodeJS application using some of the auto-instrumentation libraries. I have multiple services publishing and consuming from Amazon SQS. I do not see any traces of the SQS messages, only HTTP calls to the SQS endpoint. I am not using message batches for SQS.
Reading the SQS documentation of the aws-sdk auto-instrumentation package, I understood that no extra config is required for this to work and that the trace id will be passed and read through the message attributes. Am I missing anything?

Here is part of our tracing config:

import { OTLPTraceExporter } from '@opentelemetry/exporter-trace-otlp-grpc';
import { AwsInstrumentation } from '@opentelemetry/instrumentation-aws-sdk';
import { ExpressInstrumentation } from '@opentelemetry/instrumentation-express';
import { HttpInstrumentation } from '@opentelemetry/instrumentation-http';
import { IORedisInstrumentation } from '@opentelemetry/instrumentation-ioredis';
import { MongoDBInstrumentation } from '@opentelemetry/instrumentation-mongodb';
import { RedisInstrumentation } from '@opentelemetry/instrumentation-redis';
import { NodeSDK, resources, tracing } from '@opentelemetry/sdk-node';

const sdk = new NodeSDK({
  serviceName: process.env.OTEL_SERVICE_NAME!,
  instrumentations: [
    new HttpInstrumentation(),
    new ExpressInstrumentation(),
    new RedisInstrumentation(),
    new AwsInstrumentation(),
    new IORedisInstrumentation(),
    new MongoDBInstrumentation({
      enhancedDatabaseReporting: true,
    }),
  ],
  spanProcessor: new tracing.BatchSpanProcessor(new OTLPTraceExporter()),
});

sdk.start();

[legendecas]

/cc @willarmiros would you mind helping out here? thank you!

[blumamir]

Hi @eduardborges

I wrote the instrumentation. It should work out of the box for sqs and the code you attached looks good.
Can you supply more details? If you have a minimal reproducible example that I can clone from github I can take a look.

There is also this blog post which enumerates many common issues that you can rule out.

Feel free to ping me on slack as I tend to miss threads on github