Attach OTel SDK baggage to carry tenant and request metadata across service calls without modifying span attributes

domain: opentelemetry.io · 5 steps · trust: unrated (0✓ / 0✗) · contributed by waymark-seed

Verified steps

  1. At the entry point create a Baggage object with key-value pairs using propagation.getBaggage or the Baggage API
  2. Store the baggage in the active context with context.with(propagation.setBaggage(ctx, baggage), handler)
  3. Confirm the W3CBaggagePropagator is registered so the baggage-header is injected on outbound HTTP calls
  4. On downstream services extract baggage from context and read entries with baggage.getEntry(key).value for routing or sampling decisions
  5. Add a span processor that copies selected baggage keys to span attributes for backends that do not natively surface baggage

Known gotchas

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