django example does not include configuration details

[dambott]

This example: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/tree/main/docs/examples/django
says:
"
Set these environment variables first:

export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=instrumentation_example.settings
"
The referenced settings file is not provided in the example. There is no discussion of how to configure the auto instrumentation e.g. to set the exporter type, endpoint, port etc. and my guess is that that information needs to be provided via the settings file

So, while I'd like to try this out, I can't really get started. Is there another doc that explains how to set things up ? Thanks !

[srikanthccv]

The referenced settings file is right there https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/blob/main/docs/examples/django/instrumentation_example/settings.py. This example uses the console exporter to illustrate the tracing in action so there is nothing to mention about settings such as endpoint, port etc. For detailed guide to various ways you can use the api/sdk/exporters for instrumentation please refer to https://opentelemetry.io/docs/instrumentation/python/.

[dambott]

Thank you. Django is new to me.

I still think the doc could use a tweak. It says:
"Once there, open the manage.py file. The call to DjangoInstrumentor().instrument() in main is all that is needed to make the app be instrumented."
but you also need to add
'from opentelemetry.instrumentation.django import DjangoInstrumentor'
which the example shows but the doc skips over.

Thanks again !