Activate ziris-instrumentation-extension

Created 16 Jul 2021, Updated 23 Aug 2021

Enabling the z/IRIS Instrumentation Extension requires a restart of the JVM with the following, additional Java system property:

Property name	Description
otel.javaagent.extensions	The path of the instrumentation extension module(s) that add behavior to the OTEL Java agent.

Example

Assuming that your command line looks similar to this:

CODE

java -javaagent:path/to/opentelemetry-javaagent-all.jar \
     -jar myApplication.jar

Change it to this:

CODE

java -javaagent:path/to/opentelemetry-javaagent-all.jar \
     -Dotel.javaagent.extensions=path/to/ziris-instrumentation-extension.jar \
     -jar myApplication.jar