cannot find package "go.opentelemetry.io/otel/api/trace"

[settys]

I use go-redis, which fails,with the error,

cannot find package "go.opentelemetry.io/otel/api/trace" in any of:
/usr/local/go/src/go.opentelemetry.io/otel/api/trace (from $GOROOT)
/go/src/go.opentelemetry.io/otel/api/trace (from $GOPATH)

[Aneurysm9]

Are you not using Go modules? go-redis should be using the v0.11.0 SDK according to its go.mod. Building it against HEAD is not guaranteed to work and is likely to break intermittently as we work toward 1.0, thus we cannot support it.

[MrAlias]

This was moved into the otel package on master: #1229

It looks like go-redis uses modules: https://github.com/go-redis/redis/blob/b965d69fc9defa439a46d8178b60fc1d44f8fe29/go.mod#L10

If you make sure you are using a compatible version of Go you should also use modules and not have an issue.

[louiemiranda]

Hi @MrAlias If I understand correctly, go-redis should be using the version of go 1.13 and not go 1.11 to run opentelemetry-go ?

[Aneurysm9]

Hi @MrAlias If I understand correctly, go-redis should be using the version of go 1.13 and not go 1.11 to run opentelemetry-go ?

If you are using Go <1.14 you need to ensure you are using Go in module mode. From 1.14 module mode is the default. Prior to that you can specify GO111MODULE=on as an environment variable to ensure Go operates in module mode.