Set opentracing priority before setting other tags

changelog.d/10092.bugfix

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix a bug in the `force_tracing_for_users` option introduced in Synapse v1.35 which meant that the OpenTracing spans produced were missing most tags.

synapse/api/auth.py

@@ -206,11 +206,11 @@ async def get_user_by_req(
                 requester = create_requester(user_id, app_service=app_service)
 
                 request.requester = user_id
+                if user_id in self._force_tracing_for_users:
+                    opentracing.set_tag(opentracing.tags.SAMPLING_PRIORITY, 1)
                 opentracing.set_tag("authenticated_entity", user_id)
                 opentracing.set_tag("user_id", user_id)
                 opentracing.set_tag("appservice_id", app_service.id)
-                if user_id in self._force_tracing_for_users:
-                    opentracing.set_tag(opentracing.tags.SAMPLING_PRIORITY, 1)
 
                 return requester
 
@@ -259,12 +259,12 @@ async def get_user_by_req(
             )
 
             request.requester = requester
+            if user_info.token_owner in self._force_tracing_for_users:
+                opentracing.set_tag(opentracing.tags.SAMPLING_PRIORITY, 1)
             opentracing.set_tag("authenticated_entity", user_info.token_owner)
             opentracing.set_tag("user_id", user_info.user_id)
             if device_id:
                 opentracing.set_tag("device_id", device_id)
-            if user_info.token_owner in self._force_tracing_for_users:
-                opentracing.set_tag(opentracing.tags.SAMPLING_PRIORITY, 1)
 
             return requester
         except KeyError:

synapse/federation/transport/server.py

@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 )
 from synapse.logging.context import run_in_background
 from synapse.logging.opentracing import (
+    SynapseTags,
     start_active_span,
     start_active_span_from_request,
     tags,
@@ -314,7 +315,7 @@ async def new_func(request, *args, **kwargs):
                 raise
 
             request_tags = {
-                "request_id": request.get_request_id(),
+                SynapseTags.REQUEST_ID: request.get_request_id(),
                 tags.SPAN_KIND: tags.SPAN_KIND_RPC_SERVER,
                 tags.HTTP_METHOD: request.get_method(),
                 tags.HTTP_URL: request.get_redacted_uri(),

synapse/logging/opentracing.py

@@ -265,6 +265,12 @@ class SynapseTags:
     # Whether the sync response has new data to be returned to the client.
     SYNC_RESULT = "sync.new_data"
 
+    # incoming HTTP request ID  (as written in the logs)
+    REQUEST_ID = "request_id"
+
+    # HTTP request tag (used to distinguish full vs incremental syncs, etc)
+    REQUEST_TAG = "request_tag"
+
 
 # Block everything by default
 # A regex which matches the server_names to expose traces for.
@@ -824,7 +830,7 @@ def trace_servlet(request: "SynapseRequest", extract_context: bool = False):
         return
 
     request_tags = {
-        "request_id": request.get_request_id(),
+        SynapseTags.REQUEST_ID: request.get_request_id(),
         tags.SPAN_KIND: tags.SPAN_KIND_RPC_SERVER,
         tags.HTTP_METHOD: request.get_method(),
         tags.HTTP_URL: request.get_redacted_uri(),
@@ -833,9 +839,9 @@ def trace_servlet(request: "SynapseRequest", extract_context: bool = False):
 
     request_name = request.request_metrics.name
     if extract_context:
-        scope = start_active_span_from_request(request, request_name, tags=request_tags)
+        scope = start_active_span_from_request(request, request_name)
     else:
-        scope = start_active_span(request_name, tags=request_tags)
+        scope = start_active_span(request_name)
 
     with scope:
         try:
@@ -845,4 +851,11 @@ def trace_servlet(request: "SynapseRequest", extract_context: bool = False):
             # with JsonResource).
             scope.span.set_operation_name(request.request_metrics.name)
 
-            scope.span.set_tag("request_tag", request.request_metrics.start_context.tag)
+            # set the tags *after* the servlet completes, in case it decided to
+            # prioritise the span (tags will get dropped on unprioritised spans)
+            request_tags[
+                SynapseTags.REQUEST_TAG
+            ] = request.request_metrics.start_context.tag
+
+            for k, v in request_tags.items():
+                scope.span.set_tag(k, v)

synapse/metrics/background_process_metrics.py

@@ -22,7 +22,11 @@
 from twisted.internet import defer
 
 from synapse.logging.context import LoggingContext, PreserveLoggingContext
-from synapse.logging.opentracing import noop_context_manager, start_active_span
+from synapse.logging.opentracing import (
+    SynapseTags,
+    noop_context_manager,
+    start_active_span,
+)
 from synapse.util.async_helpers import maybe_awaitable
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
@@ -202,7 +206,9 @@ async def run():
             try:
                 ctx = noop_context_manager()
                 if bg_start_span:
-                    ctx = start_active_span(desc, tags={"request_id": str(context)})
+                    ctx = start_active_span(
+                        desc, tags={SynapseTags.REQUEST_ID: str(context)}
+                    )
                 with ctx:
                     return await maybe_awaitable(func(*args, **kwargs))
             except Exception: