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---
title: "Custom Tracer"
id: custom-tracer
slug: "/tracing-custom-tracer"
description: "Learn how to connect Haystack to a custom tracing backend by implementing the Tracer interface."
---
# Custom Tracer
Learn how to connect Haystack to a custom tracing backend by implementing the `Tracer` interface.
<div className="key-value-table">
| | |
| --- | --- |
| **Base classes** | `Tracer` and `Span` |
| **How to enable** | Implement the `Tracer` interface, then `tracing.enable_tracing(your_tracer)` |
| **Content tracing** | Optional. Set `HAYSTACK_CONTENT_TRACING_ENABLED` to `true` to trace component inputs and outputs |
| **Package** | Built into Haystack |
| **GitHub link** | https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack/blob/main/haystack/tracing/tracer.py |
</div>
## Overview
If your tracing backend isn't supported out of the box, you can connect it to Haystack by implementing the `Tracer` interface. This gives you full control over how spans are created and how tags are recorded.
## Usage
1. Implement the `Tracer` interface. The following code snippet provides an example using the OpenTelemetry package:
```python
import contextlib
from typing import Optional, Dict, Any, Iterator
from opentelemetry import trace
from opentelemetry.trace import NonRecordingSpan
from haystack.tracing import Tracer, Span
from haystack.tracing import utils as tracing_utils
import opentelemetry.trace
class OpenTelemetrySpan(Span):
def __init__(self, span: opentelemetry.trace.Span) -> None:
self._span = span
def set_tag(self, key: str, value: Any) -> None:
# Tracing backends usually don't support any tag value
# `coerce_tag_value` forces the value to either be a Python
# primitive (int, float, boolean, str) or tries to dump it as string.
coerced_value = tracing_utils.coerce_tag_value(value)
self._span.set_attribute(key, coerced_value)
class OpenTelemetryTracer(Tracer):
def __init__(self, tracer: opentelemetry.trace.Tracer) -> None:
self._tracer = tracer
@contextlib.contextmanager
def trace(self, operation_name: str, tags: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None) -> Iterator[Span]:
with self._tracer.start_as_current_span(operation_name) as span:
span = OpenTelemetrySpan(span)
if tags:
span.set_tags(tags)
yield span
def current_span(self) -> Optional[Span]:
current_span = trace.get_current_span()
if isinstance(current_span, NonRecordingSpan):
return None
return OpenTelemetrySpan(current_span)
```
2. Tell Haystack to use your custom tracer:
```python
from haystack import tracing
haystack_tracer = OpenTelemetryTracer(tracer)
tracing.enable_tracing(haystack_tracer)
```