Hi guys!
# spicedbt
Toi
05/27/2025, 5:25 PMHi guys!
Is there a way I can propagate a traceId into the requests and have them appear inside the logs?
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yetitwo
05/27/2025, 5:48 PMnot currently, no. is there something that you're trying to assess that normal traces don't provide for?
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Toi
05/27/2025, 7:20 PMI would like to correlate logs of the same traceId, so I can query logs from my service + logs from spicedb for a given traceId
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yetitwo
05/27/2025, 7:35 PMyeah. what particular thing are you trying to diagnose? i ask because spicedb doesn't actually provide that much useful context in logs (something that we're aware of and would like to improve)
yetitwo
05/27/2025, 7:35 PMor is it more just to have that correlation available to you?
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Toi
05/27/2025, 7:40 PMNo particular thing. Just to better debug my application requests when needed
Toi
05/27/2025, 7:41 PMJust to make sure, if I enable the otel flag, will it correlate the traces with my application traces as well?
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Joey
05/27/2025, 8:21 PMyes
Joey
05/27/2025, 8:21 PMor more accurately, the OTEL traces contain the trace ID for the request
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Toi
05/28/2025, 5:17 PMThanks! I'll try it out!
What are the otel env variable names?
Toi
05/28/2025, 5:20 PM[These ones, right?](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otel/configuration/sdk-environment-variables/)
Toi
05/28/2025, 5:22 PMMy exporter endpoint should be on OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT?
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yetitwo
05/28/2025, 5:29 PMsec, i think i have an example somewhere
yetitwo
05/28/2025, 5:30 PM Copy code
{ "name" : "SPICEDB_OTEL_PROVIDER", "value" : "otlpgrpc" },
{ "name" : "OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT", "value" : "http://localhost:4317" },yetitwo
05/28/2025, 5:30 PMthat should be enough to get you off the ground
yetitwo
05/28/2025, 5:31 PMand yeah you use
OTEL_SPICEDB_t
Toi
05/28/2025, 5:35 PMAwesome! Thanks!