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Summary

Adds Instruments.HTTPX support to the traceloop SDK for #2283, building on the work started in #4070 with tests, dependency declarations, lockfile updates, and URL-exclusion wiring.

What changed

  • New Instruments.HTTPX enum member, dispatch branch in init_instrumentations, and init_httpx_instrumentor (mirrors the existing requests/urllib3 instrumentors).
  • Declares opentelemetry-instrumentation-httpx and httpx as SDK dependencies; uv.lock updated accordingly.
  • New hermetic tests in tests/test_httpx_instrumentation.py (no network): init wiring, span capture with attributes, and excluded-URL behavior using a local server.

Design decisions (please review)

  1. HTTPX is opt-in, not part of the implicit default set. The SDK's default Traceloop.init() (no instruments argument) resolves to set(Instruments) in init_instrumentations. Adding HTTPX to that default caused 9 to 12 existing tests to fail (test_workflows.py, test_association_properties.py, test_prompt_management.py, test_privacy_no_prompts.py, test_span_postprocess_callback) because those tests assert exact span lists, and httpx-based libraries (openai, langchain-openai) emit HTTP client spans even when the call is replayed from a cassette. If you prefer REQUESTS-parity default-on behavior, the one-line change is to remove - {Instruments.HTTPX} from the default, at the cost of updating those exact-span tests. I kept the suite green instead.
  2. Exclusion wiring. In the currently resolved version (opentelemetry-instrumentation-httpx 0.64b0), HTTPXClientInstrumentor().instrument(excluded_urls=...) ignores the kwarg and only reads OTEL_PYTHON_HTTPX_EXCLUDED_URLS at instrument time. init_httpx_instrumentor therefore setdefaults that variable from the existing EXCLUDED_URLS constant so the SDK's internal API calls and common LLM-provider hosts are not double-traced.
  3. Supersedes feat(sdk): add httpx instrumentation support #4070, which is missing tests, the httpx package declaration, the lockfile update, and this exclusion wiring, and whose default-on behavior fails the full test suite.

Verification

  • uv run ruff check . passes
  • uv run mypy traceloop/sdk passes
  • Full uv run pytest tests/: 2 failed, 434 passed. The two failures (test_create_dataset_from_csv, test_create_dataset_and_add_rows) are the pre-existing network-dependent dataset tests, unrelated to this change.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added HTTPX request tracing support.
    • HTTPX instrumentation can be enabled explicitly and configured with excluded URLs.
    • Traced requests include request URL and HTTP status details.
    • HTTPX tracing is opt-in and does not affect other default instrumentation settings.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved handling and reporting when HTTPX instrumentation cannot be initialized.

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The SDK adds optional HTTPX dependencies and a public instrument identifier. Explicit HTTPX initialization configures exclusions and instrumentation. Tests verify initialization, excluded requests, and successful request spans.

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HTTPX instrumentation

Layer / File(s) Summary
HTTPX dependencies and instrument identifier
packages/traceloop-sdk/pyproject.toml, packages/traceloop-sdk/traceloop/sdk/instruments.py
The package declares bounded httpx dependencies and adds Instruments.HTTPX.
HTTPX initialization and default selection
packages/traceloop-sdk/traceloop/sdk/tracing/tracing.py
Default instrumentation excludes HTTPX. Explicit selection dispatches to init_httpx_instrumentor, which configures exclusions and reports setup status.
HTTPX instrumentation tests
packages/traceloop-sdk/tests/test_httpx_instrumentation.py
Hermetic tests verify initialization, excluded-URL suppression, request spans, URL attributes, HTTP 200 status, and cleanup.

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 08ac0

The PR adds opt-in HTTPX instrumentation with dependency and exclusion wiring; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SDK
  participant HTTPXInstrumentor
  participant LocalHTTPServer
  SDK->>HTTPXInstrumentor: initialize explicit HTTPX instrumentation
  SDK->>HTTPXInstrumentor: configure excluded URLs
  HTTPXInstrumentor->>LocalHTTPServer: send HTTPX request
  LocalHTTPServer-->>HTTPXInstrumentor: return HTTP 200 response
  HTTPXInstrumentor-->>SDK: export request span
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39-90: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Restore OTEL_PYTHON_HTTPX_EXCLUDED_URLS after each test.

init_httpx_instrumentor() adds a default value when the variable is absent. The first and third tests leave that value in the process environment. The exclusion test deletes any prior value instead of restoring it. This can change later tests or externally supplied test configuration.

Use a fixture that snapshots the original value and restores it during teardown. Also uninstrument in that fixture.

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In `@packages/traceloop-sdk/tests/test_httpx_instrumentation.py` around lines 39 -
90, Add a fixture covering the HTTPX instrumentation tests that snapshots the
original OTEL_PYTHON_HTTPX_EXCLUDED_URLS value, restores it during teardown, and
calls HTTPXClientInstrumentor().uninstrument(). Remove the per-test environment
cleanup and uninstrument calls in test_init_httpx_instrumentor_returns_true,
test_httpx_excluded_url_is_not_traced, and test_httpx_request_produces_a_span so
the fixture consistently preserves external configuration.
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Inline comments:
In `@packages/traceloop-sdk/pyproject.toml`:
- Around line 20-21: Update the opentelemetry-instrumentation-httpx dependency
constraint to raise its minimum version from 0.59b0 to 0.60b0, preserving the
existing dependency declaration and other constraints.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@packages/traceloop-sdk/tests/test_httpx_instrumentation.py`:
- Around line 39-90: Add a fixture covering the HTTPX instrumentation tests that
snapshots the original OTEL_PYTHON_HTTPX_EXCLUDED_URLS value, restores it during
teardown, and calls HTTPXClientInstrumentor().uninstrument(). Remove the
per-test environment cleanup and uninstrument calls in
test_init_httpx_instrumentor_returns_true,
test_httpx_excluded_url_is_not_traced, and test_httpx_request_produces_a_span so
the fixture consistently preserves external configuration.
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