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Problem and user impact

Worker activities exported spans, but workflow runs and their children did not form a complete API-rooted trace. This connects requests, workflow runs and every activity attempt across the turn, memory-maintenance and memory-mutation workers.

Fixes #61.

Change

  • Reuse the dependency-free @space/runtime OTLP/HTTP JSON exporter. Fix its empty-flush race and add validated predecessor links.
  • Install opt-in deterministic workflow interceptors and replay-suppressed Node sinks. Run UUIDs provide stable span IDs without consuming workflow randomness.
  • Propagate recorded parents through Temporal headers for activities, local activities, children and continue-as-new. Preserve a supervisor mission's originating request trace and link its supervising run.
  • Persist links to the completed source run for background continuations. Downstream room-action calls use the actual activity span.
  • Keep exported fields allowlisted and collector I/O outside workflow execution and activity completion. Update configuration, observability and changelog documentation.

Verification

macOS arm64, Node 22.23.4. Updated to current main 50272ac (1.1.8); resolved the changelog overlap without dropping upstream changes.

  • npm ci — merged lockfile installs; npm reported zero vulnerabilities.
  • npm run check — passed.
  • TMPDIR=/private/tmp npm test -w @space/worker — 32 files, 243 tests passed.
  • npm test -w @space/api -- otlp trace-correlation memory-mutation-coordinator memory-consolidation-coordinator dot-goals — 5 files, 36 tests passed.
  • Real local Temporal + HTTP collector tests cover API parentage, retry attempts, nested children, production turn/action/dot/memory workflows, supervisor missions from distinct traces, continue-as-new and zero additional exports on replay. Legacy uninstrumented history using workflow uuid4() also replays.
  • Collector timeout, bounded drops, privacy allowlist, concurrent activity context and disabled-export tests.
  • Offline opt-out follow-up verified: default worker run still passes all 243 tests; SPACE_SKIP_TEMPORAL_INTEGRATION=1 skips the 5 integration tests explicitly. Skipping does not count as integration/replay proof.
  • npm run build — passed; web chunk-size warnings remain.
  • npm run hygiene:preflight and git diff origin/main --check — passed.
  • All contribution commits carry DCO sign-off under MIT. No credentials, customer data, private memory or operator runtime state included.

Real Jaeger screenshot: 8 spans, depth 4, one complete API-rooted trace, with an intentional failed activity attempt followed by its successful retry. Only synthetic data and local test services; no provider account or Docker.

Remote CI: external-fork GitHub Actions runs currently require maintainer approval; they have not been executed and are not claimed as passing.

Full-suite limitations: npm test on this tree stops in root script tests: 146 passed, 2 failed, 2 skipped. Both failures were reproduced on untouched current main 50272ac: macOS wc whitespace in the credential-wrapper assertion, and the Docker test's stale undici@6.28.1 expectation against upstream's 6.29.1. The selected clean-main reproduction has 22 passed / 2 failed. The entire workspace suite was not rerun after the 1.1.8 update; Linux, authenticated-provider and production acceptance are not claimed.

Security, resources and rollback

Export stays off unless a valid SPACE_OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT is configured. Queue capacity remains 4096 spans, batches 256, HTTP timeout 3 seconds. Export failures do not change activity outcomes. Replay suppression is not an exactly-once guarantee for workflow-task retries. No database migration; previousTraceparent is optional. Unsetting the endpoint removes workflow tracing modules/sinks while preserving activity logs.

Prepared with AI assistance; source reviewed and the commands above executed locally.

…ts over OTLP

Propagate recorded parents through Temporal headers and export workflow spans
through replay-suppressed sinks in all three workers. Link continued and
background runs, preserve cross-request mission traces, and keep attributes
allowlisted. Add real local Temporal/HTTP collector tests and an empty-flush
exporter regression test.

Signed-off-by: Artem Vlasov <xaococ1@gmail.com>
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Walkthrough

The API now passes trace context to Temporal workflows. Worker tracing propagates context across workflow and activity execution, exports spans when configured, and records links for continued or background work. Tests and documentation cover export behavior, replay, and configuration.

Changes: Temporal trace propagation and export

Layer / File(s) Summary
API workflow correlation
apps/api/src/dot-goals.ts, apps/api/src/memory-consolidation-coordinator.ts, apps/api/src/memory-mutation-coordinator.ts, apps/api/src/trace-context.ts, apps/api/tests/*
Goal and memory workflow starts now include trace correlation data in workflow memos. The trace-context helper returns the registered request traceparent. Tests check the memo values and traceparent.
Worker trace propagation and span recording
apps/worker/src/trace-propagation.ts, apps/worker/src/workflow-tracing.ts, apps/worker/src/activity-observability.ts, apps/worker/src/worker-tracing.ts, packages/runtime/src/otlp-span-exporter.ts, apps/worker/tests/activity-observability.test.ts, apps/worker/tests/worker-tracing.test.ts, apps/api/tests/otlp-span-exporter.test.ts, apps/worker/package.json
Worker tracing propagates trace context through workflows and activities and records workflow and activity spans. Exported spans can include validated causal links. Tests cover attribute filtering, exporter behavior, and activity isolation.
Worker wiring and continuation links
apps/worker/src/worker.ts, apps/worker/src/memory-maintenance-worker.ts, apps/worker/src/memory-mutation-worker.ts, apps/worker/src/room-action-bridge.ts, apps/worker/src/room-background-continuation.ts, packages/contracts/src/schemas.ts, apps/worker/tests/fixtures/*, apps/worker/tests/room-background-continuation.test.ts, apps/worker/tests/workflow-tracing.integration.test.ts, docs/configuration-reference.md, docs/quality/observability.md, CHANGELOG.md
Workers install tracing options. Room actions and background continuations propagate trace context and predecessor links. Integration tests exercise workflows, activities, and replay; documentation describes optional export and its limits.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~50 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant APIRequest
  participant Temporal
  participant WorkflowInterceptor
  participant ActivityInterceptor
  participant SpanExporter
  APIRequest->>Temporal: Start workflow with trace memo
  Temporal->>WorkflowInterceptor: Execute workflow
  WorkflowInterceptor->>ActivityInterceptor: Propagate workflow traceparent
  ActivityInterceptor->>SpanExporter: Record activity span
  WorkflowInterceptor->>SpanExporter: Send workflow completion to sink
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Possibly related issues

  • Issue 60: The pull request adds Temporal integration tests for workflow tracing and replay behavior, which relates to the issue’s real workflow execution and replay-determinism objectives.
Merge Risk: Low · up to f0be9

Offline contributors cannot complete the default worker tests on a first run. The change remains mergeable with an opt-out or a separate integration-test command.

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Title check Passed The title "feat(observability): connect API, Temporal workflows and activity attempts over OTLP" matches the main change. The changeset adds OTLP tracing that links API requests, Temporal workflow run…
Linked Issues check Passed Issue #61 is directly linked and remains open. The reviewed changes implement its coding requirements: shared opt-in runtime OTLP export for all three workers; bounded queue, drop handling, timeout, a…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changed API coordination, propagation, runtime exporter, worker wiring, tests, documentation, and changelog support issue #61. The changes do not add CLI or Browser Host spans, metrics or log expo…
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The title "feat(observability): connect API, Temporal workflows and activity attempts over OTLP" matches the main change. The changeset adds OTLP tracing that links API requests, Temporal workflow runs, child workflows, and activity attempts across the three workers, and the PR objectives name the same goal. The title is specific and describes the primary change from the developer's perspective. Its length (84 characters) is slightly long but acceptable.

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Issue #61 is directly linked and remains open. The reviewed changes implement its coding requirements: shared opt-in runtime OTLP export for all three workers; bounded queue, drop handling, timeout, and failure isolation; deterministic workflow and activity tracing with replay suppression; Temporal propagation for activities, local activities, child workflows, and continue-as-new; links for continue-as-new and background continuations; allowlisted attributes and safe failure codes; local Temporal/HTTP collector integration tests, replay tests, and allowlist tests; and updates to the observability and configuration documentation. The summary also reports no new OpenTelemetry tracing dependency.

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The changed API coordination, propagation, runtime exporter, worker wiring, tests, documentation, and changelog support issue #61. The changes do not add CLI or Browser Host spans, metrics or log export, sampling configuration, or database trace columns. The added @temporalio/testing dependency supports the required integration tests and is not a tracing SDK.

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Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Real local Temporal + HTTP collector proof: one complete API-rooted trace with 8 spans, depth 4, including a retried activity and child workflows. The failed span is the intentionally failed first activity attempt. Synthetic test data only; no provider or operator instance.

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Keep real Temporal coverage enabled by default, with an explicit skip flag
for contributors who cannot download the local test server. Document that
skipping the suite is not passing integration or replay evidence.

Signed-off-by: Artem Vlasov <xaococ1@gmail.com>
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Thank you for contributing and for sharing your work. This PR is awaiting maintainer review; the automated review does not replace that step.

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Thank you for the time and care you put into this pull request.
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[$600] Export worker and workflow spans over OTLP: one trace from API request to every Temporal activity

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