distributed tracing not working for Netty Server with opentelemetry

Question

I am using netty server for processing tcp message. during this call we are calling rest api of an microservice and want to have tracing information logged from netty server to microservice. I tried configuring opentelemetry but its not working.please help

Answer 1

Netty is a very generic networking library. The OpenTelemetry instrumentation for Netty is written specifically for the Netty Http Client and Server classes. Instrumentation for other usages is not supported.