Valid span operation name for queue instrumentation

[okovpashko]

Hello,

I have a custom instrumentation for the BullMQ queue in my Node.js project.

During upgrading to Sentry SDK v8 I noticed a new article about queue instrumentation.
It states that we must use the queue.publish span operation name when we add new tasks to queues and queue.process when we process the tasks.

At the same time, the older article with the well-known operations doesn't have such span operations for queues. I used to use the queue.submit and queue.task in my implementation but now I'm confused.

Could you please clarify where the source of truth is and what span operations should be used?
I'm also curious if Sentry has any specific behavior based on the span operations it receives.

[bcoe]

I'm also curious if Sentry has any specific behavior based on the span operations it receives.

Hello @okovpashko, we recently added landing pages that give insights into Queue behaviour in Sentry, you can see the UI on this page.

Could you please clarify where the source of truth is and what span operations should be used?

When we added this functionality, we made an effort to standardize on OTel messaging spans.

The messaging spans are the spans I recommend using, thanks for pointing out this older article (we will update it).

[okovpashko]

Hi @bcoe,

Thank you for the clarification! That's exactly what I wanted to understand.