Dose Nestjs support auto instrumentation with Opentelementry

[Narasimha0707]

Component(s)

auto-instrumentation

Describe the issue you're reporting

We are trying the Kubernetes operator for auto instrumentation using opentelemetry.
followed this document https://opentelemetry.io/docs/kubernetes/operator/automatic/

We added the below annotation in our Nestjs application deployment manifest.
instrumentation.opentelemetry.io/inject-nodejs: "true"

The same configurations worked for Nodejs applications and others, but for the NestJs application, it does not generate traces and spans.

I didn't find any documentation for NestJs auto instrumentation

[pavolloffay]

is the nestjs instrumentation supported by the OTEL JS project?

[sladkoff]

I'm currently also playing around with opentelemetry instrumentations in combination with NestJS applications in a Kubernetes environment.

Here's what I've learned so far:

• Yes, there is an @opentelemetry/instrumentation-nestjs-core package. It allows you to instrument your node application manually using the SDK or by using the Node auto-instrumentations.
• However, I was not able to get the Kubernetes based node auto-instrumentation to work with an existing NestJS docker container. In theory this should use the instrumentation linked above (which works when added to the application/image directly).

I've given up on the opentelemetry-operator instrumenations for now and have decided to "embed" the SDK-based auto-instrumentations in my NestJS application.

PS. This might be related to #2510