Is there a way to disable the built-in Opentelemetry traces?

[gkinsman]

Hi there! I want to create a root activity per test instead of the default root per session. I'm using SerilogTracing so really want to opt out of the default telemetry so I can create my own span tree in the test setup. I'm trying to filter out the existing activities but it leads to orphaned spans due the spans still being created but then filtered.

I want to do this in an OnTestStart or BeforeEvery(Test) (neither works today): _testActivity = _traceLogger.StartActivity("Running Test {TestName}", context.Metadata.TestName); but as you can see in this seq trace, there's a few issues.

1. Only one root activity created for the whole session - I want a root activity per test
2. The "Running Test ..." activity is created in a [BeforeEvery(Test)] but its detached from the actual test. Ideally I'd like something like:

• TestName
  - Executing Command ...
  - etc..

Is this possible today?

Thanks!

[gkinsman]

Righto it was my fault, as expected :-), missed a dispose on the activity. Tweaked a few other things, now it's beautiful!

[gkinsman]

Ok in addition I ended up using an ITestExecutor to make sure the async flow for the test activity was above the test, as creating a fixture inside the test doesn't wrap the test. Thanks!

[thomhurst]

Glad to see the extensibility points are working for ya 😁 you might also be able to do stuff in hooks and call context.AddAsyncLocals