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Author: srprash

aws-opentelemetry-distro/src/amazon/opentelemetry/distro/aws_opentelemetry_distro.py

@@ -74,6 +74,11 @@ def _configure(self, **kwargs):
 
         if os.environ.get(OTEL_PROPAGATORS, None) is None:
             os.environ.setdefault(OTEL_PROPAGATORS, "tracecontext,baggage,xray")
+            # We need to explicitly reload the opentelemetry.propagate module here
+            # because this module initializes the default propagators when it loads very early in the chain.
+            # Without reloading the OTEL_PROPAGATOR config from this distro won't take any effect.
+            # It's a hack from our end until OpenTelemetry fixes this behavior for distros to
+            # override the default propagators.
             importlib.reload(propagate)
 
         os.environ.setdefault(OTEL_PYTHON_ID_GENERATOR, "xray")