Introduce common configuration option for sanitisation of db.statement.

[Mpdreamz]

What are you trying to achieve?

Standardise the configuration for the sanitisation of db.statement.

With open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification#3104 the default for the collection of db.statement is conditional on whether sanitisation is configured/available or not.

While I fully agree with the initiative it has a knock on effect that each LANG and INSTRUMENTATION will start using their own configuration mechanisms to enable the collection of db.statement.

This leads to a fragmented feature set and quite a large configuration burden to our users.

What did you expect to see?

A single OTEL_* environment variable that users can set and that instrumentation can pick up.

OTEL_INSTRUMENTATION_DB_STATEMENT

• omit default value, discards or prevents the collection of db.statement
• sanitise
  • instruct instrumentation to sanitise any captured db.statement
  • if no sanitisation mechanism exist for the specific language instrumentation will fall back to omit
• raw collect any captured db.statement raw without any sanitisation.

Agents in specific languages could further more listen to a more restricted:

OTEL_{LANGUAGE}_INSTRUMENTATION_DB_STATEMENT environment variable that takes precedence over OTEL_INSTRUMENTATION_DB_STATEMENT

To isolate the choice further if so required.

Additional context.

• db.statement sanitization default behavior opentelemetry-specification#3104