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@AlexanderYastrebov AlexanderYastrebov commented Oct 15, 2025

Updates #3663

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func init() {
autoprop.RegisterTextMapPropagator("xxray", xxray.NewPropagatorGenerator())
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We can also add a config field e.g .PropagatorXRayReuseTraceID instead of a new name and create custom implementation if it is set.

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otel/xxray: add custom X-Ray propagator that preserves X-Amzn-Trace-Id
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Updates #3663

Signed-off-by: Alexander Yastrebov <alexander.yastrebov@zalando.de>
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value := part[equalsIndex+1:]
switch {
case strings.HasPrefix(part, traceIDKey):
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This is ugly and also allows RootFooBar=123 key 🤷 . Parsing should be done via strings.Cut or similar to #3405

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universam1 commented Oct 16, 2025

maybe we can add these samples in the test: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/application/load-balancer-request-tracing.html

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Why not xray?

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universam1 commented Oct 27, 2025

Tested this in lab and it is promising, the ALB trace-id is forwarded!

example headers forwarded:

"traceparent": "00-68ff8fe86949c39c171cef723838f6ed-2b5fdb1944ad4911-00",
"x-amzn-trace-id": "Root=1-68ff8fe8-6949c39c171cef723838f6ed;Parent=2b5fdb1944ad4911;Sampled=0",

Just it looks like the flow-id log output is not covered here yet, would it not be correct to fill it at this place as well?
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skipper-ingress-678759b679-6kvxp {"audit":"","auth-user":"","duration":1,"flow-id":"",...

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szuecs commented Oct 27, 2025

@universam1 can't you use https://opensource.zalando.com/skipper/reference/filters/#tracingtag ?
tracingTag("http.flow_id", "${request.header.X-Flow-Id}")

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