Adding BatchSpanProcessor thread name (open-telemetry#2186)

benjaminsky · web-flow · commit e74e1f630118 · 2021-10-13T21:59:06.000Z
* Adding thread name

* Updating CHANGELOG
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
   ([#2154](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/2154))
 - Make baggage implementation w3c spec complaint
   ([#2167](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/2167))
+- Add name to `BatchSpanProcessor` worker thread
+  ([#2186](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/2186))
 
 ## [1.5.0-0.24b0](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/releases/tag/v1.5.0-0.24b0) - 2021-08-26
 
diff --git a/opentelemetry-sdk/src/opentelemetry/sdk/trace/export/__init__.py b/opentelemetry-sdk/src/opentelemetry/sdk/trace/export/__init__.py
@@ -175,7 +175,9 @@ def __init__(
         self.queue = collections.deque(
             [], max_queue_size
         )  # type: typing.Deque[Span]
-        self.worker_thread = threading.Thread(target=self.worker, daemon=True)
+        self.worker_thread = threading.Thread(
+            name="OtelBatchSpanProcessor", target=self.worker, daemon=True
+        )
         self.condition = threading.Condition(threading.Lock())
         self._flush_request = None  # type: typing.Optional[_FlushRequest]
         self.schedule_delay_millis = schedule_delay_millis
