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Problem

With the agno instrumentor active, a failing tool or agent call is hidden from the caller. Six wrapper __call__ methods are decorated with @dont_throw, and agno's decorator swallows Exception for both sync and async calls. The wrappers call the real SDK method and then raise on failure, so the decorator catches that re-raise and returns None:

  • _tool_wrappers.py:23 / :93 — FunctionCall.execute / aexecute; a tool failure returns None instead of raising.
  • __init__.py:149 / :298 / :450 / :523 — Agent.run, Agent.arun, Team.run, Team.arun; an agent or model failure returns None.

The span itself may be marked ERROR, but the application continues as if the call succeeded. That is the situation this instrumentation exists to make visible, so returning a plausible-looking None is worse than no tracing.

Fix

Remove @dont_throw from these wrappers and guard only the instrumentation blocks, using a new guard_trace context manager in utils.py — the same pattern as #4589. Each real call sits in its own try/except that records the exception on the span and re-raises. If the tracer cannot open a span, the real call runs untraced instead of failing because instrumentation is unavailable. The public dont_throw helper is kept for other callers.

Test

cd packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-agno
.venv/bin/python -m pytest tests/test_error_propagation.py -q
# on 94d3f04b: 5 failed
#   Failed: DID NOT RAISE <class 'RuntimeError'>
# here:         5 passed

.venv/bin/python -m pytest tests/ -q      # 15 passed
ruff check .                              # All checks passed (0.16.6)

The new file drives the real wrappers with a fake wrapped callable that raises, and asserts both that the exception reaches the caller and that the exported span is ERROR with an exception event (exception.type == "RuntimeError"). It covers sync and async tool execution, Agent.run, Team.arun, and a broken-tracer fallback.

On the PR template's screenshot request: I cannot attach an observability-platform screenshot, so the evidence is the exported span itself, read back from the in-memory exporter and asserted rather than eyeballed.

Related, different path: #4589 fixed the same decorator pattern in the MCP instrumentor; this is the agno instrumentor.

中文说明

agno 插桩的 6 个 wrapper __call__ 带 @dont_throw。wrapper 调用真实 SDK 方法,失败时先记录 span 再 raise,但外层装饰器把这次 re-raise 吞掉并返回 None:工具执行和 Agent.run/Team.run 失败都变成静默的空结果,调用方以为成功。

修复照 #4589:去掉这些装饰器,只把插桩代码包进 guard_trace,真实调用放在单独的 try/except 里记录异常后原样抛出;tracer 打不开 span 时改为无追踪执行。公开的 dont_throw helper 保留。

验证:base 94d3f04 上新测试 5 failed(DID NOT RAISE),分支 5 passed、包内 15 passed、ruff check 干净。新增测试用会抛异常的假 wrapped 调用真实 wrapper,断言异常传回调用方且导出的 span 为 ERROR 并带 exception 事件,覆盖同步/异步工具、Agent.run、Team.arun 与 tracer 故障回退。

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Agent, team, and tool calls continue executing when trace creation or instrumentation encounters an error.
    • Exceptions from agent, team, and tool operations continue to propagate to callers and are recorded on the associated trace when available.
    • Synchronous, asynchronous, and streaming executions now handle tracing failures consistently without interrupting the underlying operation.
    • Tool execution results remain available even when span creation fails.

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📝 Walkthrough

Agno instrumentation wrappers now isolate tracing failures from wrapped calls. Agent, Team, and tool calls run without tracing when span creation fails. Wrapped-call exceptions are recorded on spans and re-raised. The change adds guard_trace and tests synchronous and asynchronous error propagation.

Changes: Agno wrapper exception handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Guard tracing operations
packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-agno/opentelemetry/instrumentation/agno/utils.py
Adds guard_trace, which logs instrumentation exceptions and passes them to the configured exception logger. Updates the dont_throw guidance.
Agent and Team call handling
packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-agno/opentelemetry/instrumentation/agno/__init__.py, packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-agno/tests/test_error_propagation.py
Agent and Team wrappers guard span creation and instrumentation. They call the wrapped function without tracing if no span is available. Wrapped-call exceptions are recorded and re-raised. Tests check error spans and exception propagation.
Tool call handling
packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-agno/opentelemetry/instrumentation/agno/_tool_wrappers.py, packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-agno/tests/test_error_propagation.py
Synchronous and asynchronous tool wrappers guard span creation and instrumentation. Function-name lookup tolerates missing function metadata. Tests check exception propagation and the untraced result when span creation fails.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: nirga

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 39328

Some tracing failures can still interrupt tool, Agent, or Team calls. The PR is mergeable with owner awareness of these remaining exception-isolation gaps.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 02d3e

The change restores application-error propagation without expanding tool permissions. However, tracing failures can still interfere with execution or replace the original error when configured error reporting fails. Exposure depends on tracing or logging failures rather than a demonstrated attacker-controlled path.

Retained concerns

  • Low · reliability · inferred: The new tracing guard delegates error reporting to Config.exception_logger without protecting that callback. If the configured callback raises during pre-call instrumentation, execution stops before the wrapped operation; during error recording, its exception can replace the application exception. This makes the failure-isolation contract across the wrappers depend on the reporting callback never failing.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated exposure is within applications using these Agno wrappers and their configured tracer and exception reporter. No supplied relationship establishes propagation to another service, tenant, or instrumentation package.

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  • observed — The exception reporter is configured by the instrumenting application and defaults to None. The identified failure path requires both an instrumentation exception and a failing configured reporter; the evidence does not show attacker control over that configuration.
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- Around line 36-48: In the sync tool wrapper, `guard_trace` only protects the
lazy creation of `start_as_current_span`; span startup can still fail when the
context manager is entered, preventing the tool from running. Use
`self._tracer.start_span` inside `guard_trace` to start eagerly, then activate
the span with `trace.use_span` and preserve the untraced fallback when startup
fails. Apply the same fix to the corresponding wrapper at the other affected
location.
- Line 48: Update the tool, Agent, and Team wrapper paths using `with
span_context as span` to guard failures raised during span-context exit,
including detach and span-end errors. Preserve propagation of exceptions from
the wrapped application call unchanged; keep the guard focused on
context-manager exit.

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- Around line 13-34: Update guard_trace so exceptions raised by
Config.exception_logger are caught and logged without escaping the context
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Comment on lines +36 to +48
span_context = None
with guard_trace(logger, span_name):
span_context = self._tracer.start_as_current_span(
span_name,
kind=SpanKind.CLIENT,
)

if span_context is None:
# The tracer could not open a span: run the tool untraced rather
# than fail the call because instrumentation is unavailable.
return wrapped(*args, **kwargs)

with span_context as span:

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Guard the span start, not only the start_as_current_span(...) call.

The OpenTelemetry SDK defines Tracer.start_as_current_span as a lazy context manager (@_agnosticcontextmanager). Calling the method only builds a generator object. start_span, the sampler, and SpanProcessor.on_start run later, inside __enter__ at with span_context as span:. That with statement is outside guard_trace.

For an SDK tracer, the guard at Line 37 and Line 119 therefore never catches a span-start failure. span_context is never None, so the untraced fallback never runs. A span-start failure then propagates to the tool caller, and the tool never runs. This defeats the PR's stated isolation goal. test_tool_execute_runs_when_tracer_fails hides the gap because _BrokenTracer.start_as_current_span raises immediately instead of at __enter__.

The Agent and Team non-streaming wrappers in __init__.py have the same root cause: Lines 218-228, 380-390, 484-496, and 567-579. The streaming paths use start_span, which runs immediately, so they are not affected.

Fix: start the span eagerly inside the guard, then activate it with trace.use_span. Also update the fake tracer so that its failure happens at __enter__ time.

🐛 Proposed fix (sync tool wrapper; apply the same pattern to the other sites)
--- "a/packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-agno/opentelemetry/instrumentation/agno/_tool_wrappers.py"
+++ "b/packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-agno/opentelemetry/instrumentation/agno/_tool_wrappers.py"
@@ -33,19 +33,19 @@
         function_name = getattr(getattr(instance, "function", None), "name", "unknown")
         span_name = f"{function_name}.tool"
 
-        span_context = None
+        span = None
         with guard_trace(logger, span_name):
-            span_context = self._tracer.start_as_current_span(
+            span = self._tracer.start_span(
                 span_name,
                 kind=SpanKind.CLIENT,
             )
 
-        if span_context is None:
+        if span is None:
             # The tracer could not open a span: run the tool untraced rather
             # than fail the call because instrumentation is unavailable.
             return wrapped(*args, **kwargs)
 
-        with span_context as span:
+        with trace.use_span(span, end_on_exit=True):
             with guard_trace(logger, span_name):
                 span.set_attribute(GenAIAttributes.GEN_AI_SYSTEM, "agno")
                 span.set_attribute(SpanAttributes.TRACELOOP_SPAN_KIND,

Add from opentelemetry import trace to the imports.

Also applies to: 118-130

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around lines 36 - 48:
In the sync tool wrapper, `guard_trace` only protects the lazy creation of
`start_as_current_span`; span startup can still fail when the context manager is
entered, preventing the tool from running. Use `self._tracer.start_span` inside
`guard_trace` to start eagerly, then activate the span with `trace.use_span` and
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# than fail the call because instrumentation is unavailable.
return wrapped(*args, **kwargs)

with span_context as span:

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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git diff 94d3f04bd9a7eec0804562fe8126c01a4f342b18 02d3e939331000df6d9faefc8e5e8240bc5df764 -- packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-agno/opentelemetry/instrumentation/agno/_tool_wrappers.py | head -190
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set -eu
printf '%s\n' '--- dependency declarations ---'
rg -n -F --glob 'pyproject.toml' -e 'opentelemetry-api' -e 'opentelemetry-sdk' -e 'agno' packages pyproject.toml 2>/dev/null || true
printf '%s\n' '--- current tool wrapper blocks ---'
nl -ba packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-agno/opentelemetry/instrumentation/agno/_tool_wrappers.py | sed -n '1,205p'
printf '%s\n' '--- non-streaming wrapper sites and surrounding blocks ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.py' -e 'start_as_current_span' -e 'with span_context as span' packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-agno/opentelemetry/instrumentation/agno
nl -ba packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-agno/opentelemetry/instrumentation/agno/__init__.py | sed -n '190,245p;350,410p;455,515p;540,600p'
printf '%s\n' '--- guard and dont_throw definitions and uses ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.py' -e 'def guard_trace' -e '@dont_throw' -e 'guard_trace(' packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-agno/opentelemetry/instrumentation/agno
printf '%s\n' '--- relevant tests and exception containment ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.py' -e 'error_propagation' -e 'DID NOT RAISE' -e 'exception_logger' -e 'start_as_current_span' tests packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-agno 2>/dev/null || true

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Guard span-context exit failures.

guard_trace does not cover with span_context as span:. If OpenTelemetry raises from context_api.detach(token) or span.end() during exit, that instrumentation exception can escape after a successful tool, Agent, or Team call. This is separate from eager span creation. Wrap the context-manager exit, not the wrapped call, so application exceptions still propagate unchanged.

Suggested fix
+@contextmanager
+def guarded_span_context(span_context, logger, origin):
+    span = span_context.__enter__()
+    try:
+        yield span
+    except BaseException as error:
+        with guard_trace(logger, origin):
+            suppress = span_context.__exit__(
+                type(error), error, error.__traceback__
+            )
+        if not suppress:
+            raise
+    else:
+        with guard_trace(logger, origin):
+            span_context.__exit__(None, None, None)

Replace each with span_context as span: in the tool, Agent, and Team wrappers with with guarded_span_context(span_context, logger, span_name) as span:.

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at line 48:
Update the tool, Agent, and Team wrapper paths using `with span_context as span`
to guard failures raised during span-context exit, including detach and span-end
errors. Preserve propagation of exceptions from the wrapped application call
unchanged; keep the guard focused on context-manager exit.

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Comment on lines +13 to +34
@contextmanager
def guard_trace(logger: logging.Logger, origin: str) -> Iterator[None]:
"""Run instrumentation-only code, logging rather than raising its failures.

Use this in a wrapper that calls into the traced library: guard the span
work, never the wrapped call itself. A failure in this instrumentation is
logged (and offered to ``Config.exception_logger``) while the traced
program carries on; an exception raised by the wrapped call reaches the
caller unchanged. Only ``Exception`` is swallowed, so cancellation keeps
unwinding.
"""
try:
yield
except Exception as e:
logger.debug(
"OpenLLMetry failed to trace in %s, error: %s",
origin,
traceback.format_exc(),
)
if Config.exception_logger:
Config.exception_logger(e)

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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nl -ba packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-agno/opentelemetry/instrumentation/agno/config.py
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printf '%s\n' '--- main wrapper paths ---'
nl -ba packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-agno/opentelemetry/instrumentation/agno/__init__.py | sed -n '145,275p'
nl -ba packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-agno/opentelemetry/instrumentation/agno/__init__.py | sed -n '305,440p'
printf '%s\n' '--- tool wrapper paths ---'
nl -ba packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-agno/opentelemetry/instrumentation/agno/_tool_wrappers.py | sed -n '1,185p'
printf '%s\n' '--- callback and guard references in tests/repository ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.py' -e 'exception_logger' -e 'guard_trace' packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-agno tests || test "$?" -eq 1
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git diff --unified=25 94d3f04bd9a7eec0804562fe8126c01a4f342b18..02d3e939331000df6d9faefc8e5e8240bc5df764 -- packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-agno

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Keep exception logger failures inside guard_trace.

When span creation raises, guard_trace calls Config.exception_logger(e) before the wrapper reaches its span_context is None fallback. If that callback raises, the callback exception escapes and the wrapped call does not run untraced. The callback must not break tracing-failure isolation.

Suggested fix
         if Config.exception_logger:
-            Config.exception_logger(e)
+            try:
+                Config.exception_logger(e)
+            except Exception:
+                logger.debug(
+                    "OpenLLMetry exception logger failed in %s, error: %s",
+                    origin,
+                    traceback.format_exc(),
+                )
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around lines 13 - 34:
Update guard_trace so exceptions raised by Config.exception_logger are caught
and logged without escaping the context manager, allowing the wrapper to
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