Add opentracing spans to calls to external cache (#12380)

changelog.d/12380.misc

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Add opentracing spans to calls to external cache.

synapse/logging/opentracing.py

@@ -289,6 +289,9 @@ class SynapseTags:
     # Uniqueish ID of a database transaction
     DB_TXN_ID = "db.txn_id"
 
+    # The name of the external cache
+    CACHE_NAME = "cache.name"
+
 
 class SynapseBaggage:
     FORCE_TRACING = "synapse-force-tracing"

synapse/replication/tcp/external_cache.py

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Optional
 
 from prometheus_client import Counter, Histogram
 
+from synapse.logging import opentracing
 from synapse.logging.context import make_deferred_yieldable
 from synapse.util import json_decoder, json_encoder
 
@@ -93,6 +94,10 @@ class ExternalCache:
 
         logger.debug("Caching %s %s: %r", cache_name, key, encoded_value)
 
+        with opentracing.start_active_span(
+            "ExternalCache.set",
+            tags={opentracing.SynapseTags.CACHE_NAME: cache_name},
+        ):
             with response_timer.labels("set").time():
                 return await make_deferred_yieldable(
                     self._redis_connection.set(
@@ -108,6 +113,10 @@ class ExternalCache:
         if self._redis_connection is None:
             return None
 
+        with opentracing.start_active_span(
+            "ExternalCache.get",
+            tags={opentracing.SynapseTags.CACHE_NAME: cache_name},
+        ):
             with response_timer.labels("get").time():
                 result = await make_deferred_yieldable(
                     self._redis_connection.get(self._get_redis_key(cache_name, key))