OpenTelemetry Instrumentation Support for Drools Rule Execution Lifecycle #6594
Description
Hi Maintainers,
I am currently using Drools v10.1.0 in a Spring Boot microservices architecture and wanted native support for OpenTelemetry instrumentation to improve observability of rule execution.
While OpenTelemetry integration exists for common components (HTTP, JDBC, Kafka, etc.), we could not find any official or community-supported instrumentation for Drools rule execution lifecycle (e.g., KieSession.execute(), rule firing, agenda events).
Since rule evaluation is a critical part of our business logic, the lack of tracing support makes it difficult to:
- Measure rule execution latency
- Identify which rules fired during a request
- Correlate rule behavior with distributed traces
- Debug production issues related to rule evaluation
Understand if there are recommended extension points for instrumentation in v10.2.0.
I would be happy to contribute my implementation if it aligns with the project direction.
21-02: Added a PR for this Change: #6595