fix(celery): close celery.apply spans even without after_task_publish, when using apply_async [backport 2.14]

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Backport 0d28e08 from #10676 to 2.14.

The instrumentation for the Celery integration relies on various Celery signals in order to start and end the span when calling on apply_async.

The integration can fail if the expected signals don't trigger, which can lead to broken context propagation (and unexpected traces).

Example:

• dd-trace-py expects the signal before_task_publish to start the span then after_task_publish to close the span. If the after_task_publish signal never gets called (which can happen if a Celery exception occurs while processing the app), then the span won't finish.
• The same thing above can also happen to task_prerun and task_postrun.

Solution

This PR patches apply_async so that there is a check to see if there is a span lingering around and closes it when apply_task is called.

If an internal exception happens, the error will be marked on the celery.apply span.

To track this, I added new logs in debug mode:

The after_task_publish signal was not called, so manually closing span

and

The task_postrun signal was not called, so manually closing span

There's a related PR #10848 that works to improve how we extract information based on the protocols, that also affects when spans get closed or not.

Special Thanks:

• Thanks to @tabgok for going through this with me in great detail!
• @timmc-edx for helping us track it down!

APMS-13158

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APMS-13158

[wantsui]

LGTM

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Datadog Report

Branch report: backport-10676-to-2.14
Commit report: 49e2a44
Test service: dd-trace-py

✅ 0 Failed, 1196 Passed, 0 Skipped, 36m 24.54s Total duration (1m 29.7s time saved)

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CODEOWNERS have been resolved as:

releasenotes/notes/fix-celery-apply-async-span-close-b7a8db188459f5b5.yaml  @DataDog/apm-python
ddtrace/contrib/internal/celery/app.py                                  @DataDog/apm-core-python @DataDog/apm-idm-python
ddtrace/contrib/internal/celery/signals.py                              @DataDog/apm-core-python @DataDog/apm-idm-python
tests/contrib/celery/test_integration.py                                @DataDog/apm-core-python @DataDog/apm-idm-python

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Benchmarks

Benchmark execution time: 2024-10-01 21:31:00

Comparing candidate commit 49e2a44 in PR branch backport-10676-to-2.14 with baseline commit c7df637 in branch 2.14.

Found 0 performance improvements and 0 performance regressions! Performance is the same for 350 metrics, 48 unstable metrics.