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Starlette Instrumentation

AppSignal for PythonThis feature requires version 0.1.4 or higher.
StarletteThis feature requires version 0.13.0 or higher.

Starlette is a lightweight, high-performance web framework for building asynchronous Python applications.

Installation

Don't forget to install the AppSignal for Python package in your application first.

First, install the opentelemetry-instrumentation-starlette package. To add it to your project, add the following line to your requirements.txt file:

shell
# requirements.txt
opentelemetry-instrumentation-starlette

Setup

Start AppSignal and define your Starlette application. Then use the StarletteInstrumentor to instrument your Starlette application:

python
# app.py
from starlette.applications import Starlette
from opentelemetry.instrumentation.starlette import StarletteInstrumentor
 
import appsignal
appsignal.start()
 
# ... your application's code goes here ...
 
app = Starlette(
  # ...
)
 
StarletteInstrumentor().instrument_app(app)