DataDog · aboitreaud · Feb 18, 2026 · Feb 18, 2026 · Feb 19, 2026 · Feb 19, 2026
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ configurations.configureEach {
 dependencies {
   compileOnly group: 'org.apache.spark', name: 'spark-core_2.12', version: '2.4.0'
   compileOnly group: 'org.apache.spark', name: 'spark-sql_2.12', version: '2.4.0'
+  compileOnly group: 'org.apache.spark', name: 'spark-launcher_2.12', version: '2.4.0'
 
   testFixturesImplementation group: 'com.datadoghq', name: 'sketches-java', version: '0.8.2'
   testFixturesImplementation group: 'com.google.protobuf', name: 'protobuf-java', version: '3.14.0'
@@ -21,7 +22,12 @@ dependencies {
   testFixturesCompileOnly group: 'org.apache.spark', name: 'spark-core_2.12', version: '2.4.0'
   testFixturesCompileOnly group: 'org.apache.spark', name: 'spark-sql_2.12', version: '2.4.0'
   testFixturesCompileOnly group: 'org.apache.spark', name: 'spark-yarn_2.12', version: '2.4.0'
+  testFixturesCompileOnly group: 'org.apache.spark', name: 'spark-launcher_2.12', version: '2.4.0'
 
   testFixturesCompileOnly(libs.bundles.groovy)
   testFixturesCompileOnly(libs.bundles.spock)
+
+  testImplementation project(':dd-java-agent:instrumentation-testing')
+  testImplementation group: 'org.apache.spark', name: 'spark-launcher_2.12', version: '2.4.0'
 }
+
@@ -106,6 +106,8 @@ public static void exit(@Advice.Thrown Throwable throwable) {
       if (AbstractDatadogSparkListener.listener != null) {
         AbstractDatadogSparkListener.listener.finishApplication(
             System.currentTimeMillis(), throwable, 0, null);
+      } else {
+        SparkLauncherListener.finishSpanWithThrowable(throwable);
       }
     }
   }

@@ -17,6 +17,12 @@
  * @see <a href="https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/configuration.html">Spark Configuration</a>
  */
 class SparkConfAllowList {
+  // Using values from
+  // https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/v3.5.1/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/internal/config/package.scala#L1150-L1158
+  static final String DEFAULT_REDACTION_REGEX = "(?i)secret|password|token|access.key|api.key";
+
+  private static final Pattern DEFAULT_REDACTION_PATTERN = Pattern.compile(DEFAULT_REDACTION_REGEX);
+
   /**
    * Job-specific parameters that can be used to control job execution or provide metadata about the
    * job being executed
@@ -80,11 +86,17 @@ public static boolean canCaptureJobParameter(String parameterName) {
     return allowedJobParams.contains(parameterName);
   }
 
+  /** Redact a value if the key or value matches the default redaction pattern. */
+  public static String redactValue(String key, String value) {
+    if (DEFAULT_REDACTION_PATTERN.matcher(key).find()
+        || DEFAULT_REDACTION_PATTERN.matcher(value).find()) {
+      return "[redacted]";
+    }
+    return value;
+  }
+
   public static List<Map.Entry<String, String>> getRedactedSparkConf(SparkConf conf) {
-    // Using values from
-    // https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/v3.5.1/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/internal/config/package.scala#L1150-L1158
-    String redactionPattern =
-        conf.get("spark.redaction.regex", "(?i)secret|password|token|access.key|api.key");
+    String redactionPattern = conf.get("spark.redaction.regex", DEFAULT_REDACTION_REGEX);
     List<Map.Entry<String, String>> redacted = new ArrayList<>();
     Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(redactionPattern);
 

@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+package datadog.trace.instrumentation.spark;
+
+import static datadog.trace.agent.tooling.bytebuddy.matcher.NameMatchers.named;
+import static net.bytebuddy.matcher.ElementMatchers.isDeclaredBy;
+import static net.bytebuddy.matcher.ElementMatchers.isMethod;
+
+import com.google.auto.service.AutoService;
+import datadog.trace.agent.tooling.Instrumenter;
+import datadog.trace.agent.tooling.InstrumenterModule;
+import datadog.trace.api.InstrumenterConfig;
+import net.bytebuddy.asm.Advice;
+import org.apache.spark.launcher.SparkAppHandle;
+
+@AutoService(InstrumenterModule.class)
+public class SparkLauncherInstrumentation extends InstrumenterModule.Tracing
+    implements Instrumenter.ForSingleType, Instrumenter.HasMethodAdvice {
+
+  public SparkLauncherInstrumentation() {
+    super("spark-launcher");
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  protected boolean defaultEnabled() {
+    return InstrumenterConfig.get().isDataJobsEnabled();
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String instrumentedType() {
+    return "org.apache.spark.launcher.SparkLauncher";
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String[] helperClassNames() {
+    return new String[] {
+      packageName + ".SparkConfAllowList", packageName + ".SparkLauncherListener",
+    };
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void methodAdvice(MethodTransformer transformer) {
+    transformer.applyAdvice(
+        isMethod()
+            .and(named("startApplication"))
+            .and(isDeclaredBy(named("org.apache.spark.launcher.SparkLauncher"))),
+        SparkLauncherInstrumentation.class.getName() + "$StartApplicationAdvice");
+  }
+
+  public static class StartApplicationAdvice {
+    @Advice.OnMethodExit(suppress = Throwable.class, onThrowable = Throwable.class)
+    public static void exit(
+        @Advice.This Object launcher,
+        @Advice.Return SparkAppHandle handle,
+        @Advice.Thrown Throwable throwable) {
+      SparkLauncherListener.createLauncherSpan(launcher);
+
+      if (throwable != null) {
+        SparkLauncherListener.finishSpanWithThrowable(throwable);
+        return;
+      }
+
+      if (handle != null) {
+        handle.addListener(new SparkLauncherListener());
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,187 @@
+package datadog.trace.instrumentation.spark;
+
+import datadog.trace.api.DDTags;
+import datadog.trace.api.sampling.PrioritySampling;
+import datadog.trace.api.sampling.SamplingMechanism;
+import datadog.trace.bootstrap.instrumentation.api.AgentSpan;
+import datadog.trace.bootstrap.instrumentation.api.AgentTracer;
+import java.lang.reflect.Field;
+import java.util.Map;
+import org.apache.spark.launcher.SparkAppHandle;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+/**
+ * Listener for SparkLauncher spans. Tracks the lifecycle of a Spark application submitted via
+ * SparkLauncher.startApplication(). Only a single launcher span can be active at a time. Subsequent
+ * calls to startApplication() from the same or different launcher instances will not create spans;
+ * only the first launch in the JVM is traced
+ */
+public class SparkLauncherListener implements SparkAppHandle.Listener {
+
+  private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(SparkLauncherListener.class);
+
+  static volatile AgentSpan launcherSpan;
+
+  private static volatile boolean shutdownHookRegistered = false;
+
+  public static synchronized void createLauncherSpan(Object launcher) {
+    if (launcherSpan != null) {
+      return;
+    }
+
+    AgentTracer.TracerAPI tracer = AgentTracer.get();
+    AgentSpan span =
+        tracer
+            .buildSpan("spark.launcher.launch")
+            .withSpanType("spark")
+            .withResourceName("SparkLauncher.startApplication")
+            .start();
+    span.setSamplingPriority(PrioritySampling.USER_KEEP, SamplingMechanism.DATA_JOBS);
+    setLauncherConfigTags(span, launcher);
+    launcherSpan = span;
+
+    if (!shutdownHookRegistered) {
+      shutdownHookRegistered = true;
+      Runtime.getRuntime()
+          .addShutdownHook(
+              new Thread(
+                  () -> {
+                    synchronized (SparkLauncherListener.class) {
+                      AgentSpan s = launcherSpan;
+                      if (s != null) {
+                        log.info("Finishing spark.launcher span from shutdown hook");
+                        s.finish();
+                        launcherSpan = null;
+                      }
+                    }
+                  }));
+    }
+  }
+
+  public static synchronized void finishSpan(boolean isError, String errorMessage) {
+    AgentSpan span = launcherSpan;
+    if (span == null) {
+      return;
+    }
+    if (isError) {
+      span.setError(true);
+      span.setTag(DDTags.ERROR_TYPE, "Spark Launcher Failed");
+      span.setTag(DDTags.ERROR_MSG, errorMessage);
+    }
+    span.finish();
+    launcherSpan = null;
+  }
+
+  public static synchronized void finishSpanWithThrowable(Throwable throwable) {
+    AgentSpan span = launcherSpan;
+    if (span == null) {
+      return;
+    }
+    if (throwable != null) {
+      span.addThrowable(throwable);
+    }
+    span.finish();
+    launcherSpan = null;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void stateChanged(SparkAppHandle handle) {
+    synchronized (SparkLauncherListener.class) {
+      SparkAppHandle.State state = handle.getState();
+      AgentSpan span = launcherSpan;
+      if (span != null) {
+        span.setTag("spark.launcher.app_state", state.toString());
+
+        String appId = handle.getAppId();
+        if (appId != null) {
+          span.setTag("spark.app_id", appId);
+          span.setTag("app_id", appId);
+        }
+
+        if (state.isFinal()) {
+          if (state == SparkAppHandle.State.FAILED
+              || state == SparkAppHandle.State.KILLED
+              || state == SparkAppHandle.State.LOST) {
+            finishSpan(true, "Application " + state);
+          } else {
+            finishSpan(false, null);
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void infoChanged(SparkAppHandle handle) {
+    synchronized (SparkLauncherListener.class) {
+      AgentSpan span = launcherSpan;
+      if (span != null) {
+        String appId = handle.getAppId();
+        if (appId != null) {
+          span.setTag("spark.app_id", appId);
+          span.setTag("app_id", appId);
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Extract launcher configuration via reflection and set as span tags. Secret redaction uses the
+   * default pattern only (not spark.redaction.regex) because the SparkLauncher conf map is a plain
+   * Map, not a SparkConf, so there is no way to read the user's custom redaction regex at this
+   * point.
+   */
+  private static void setLauncherConfigTags(AgentSpan span, Object launcher) {
+    try {
+      Field builderField = launcher.getClass().getSuperclass().getDeclaredField("builder");
+      builderField.setAccessible(true);
+      Object builder = builderField.get(launcher);
+      if (builder == null) {
+        return;
+      }
+
+      Class<?> builderClass = builder.getClass();
+      Class<?> abstractBuilderClass = builderClass.getSuperclass();
+
+      setStringFieldAsTag(span, builder, abstractBuilderClass, "master", "master");
+      setStringFieldAsTag(span, builder, abstractBuilderClass, "deployMode", "deploy_mode");
+      setStringFieldAsTag(span, builder, abstractBuilderClass, "appName", "application_name");
+      setStringFieldAsTag(span, builder, abstractBuilderClass, "mainClass", "main_class");
+      setStringFieldAsTag(span, builder, abstractBuilderClass, "appResource", "app_resource");
+
+      try {
+        Field confField = abstractBuilderClass.getDeclaredField("conf");
+        confField.setAccessible(true);
+        @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+        Map<String, String> conf = (Map<String, String>) confField.get(builder);
+        if (conf != null) {
+          for (Map.Entry<String, String> entry : conf.entrySet()) {
+            if (SparkConfAllowList.canCaptureJobParameter(entry.getKey())) {
+              String value = SparkConfAllowList.redactValue(entry.getKey(), entry.getValue());
+              span.setTag("config." + entry.getKey().replace('.', '_'), value);
+            }
+          }
+        }
+      } catch (NoSuchFieldException e) {
+        log.debug("Could not find conf field on builder", e);
+      }
+    } catch (Exception e) {
+      log.debug("Failed to extract SparkLauncher configuration", e);
+    }
+  }
+
+  private static void setStringFieldAsTag(
+      AgentSpan span, Object obj, Class<?> clazz, String fieldName, String tagName) {
+    try {
+      Field field = clazz.getDeclaredField(fieldName);
+      field.setAccessible(true);
+      Object value = field.get(obj);
+      if (value != null) {
+        span.setTag(tagName, value.toString());
+      }
+    } catch (Exception e) {
+      log.debug("Could not read field {} from builder", fieldName, e);
+    }
+  }
+}