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Connect Ruby trace data with logs for Splunk Observability Cloud 🔗

You can configure the Ruby standard logger to include tracing attributes provided automatically by the Splunk OTel Ruby agent. Use the trace metadata to correlate traces with log events and explore logs in Splunk.

Include trace metadata in log statements 🔗

The Splunk OTel Ruby agent provides the following attributes for the logging module in the standard library:

  • Trace information: TraceId and SpanId

  • Resource attributes: ServiceName

To add trace metadata to logs, use the Splunk::Otel::Logging.format_correlation function of the Ruby standard logger to set the formatter, as in the following example:

logger.formatter = proc do |severity, datetime, progname, msg|
   "#{Splunk::Otel::Logging.format_correlation} #{msg}\n"
end

This adds service.name=<ServiceName> trace_id=<TraceId> span_id=<SpanId> to each log line. For example:

service.name=basic-service trace_id=789b159aaee2b389a8771b2588278bcf span_id=6d26eba14a81f3fa