What problem do you want to solve?

It's common to see user-defined middleware in Django - https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.2/topics/http/middleware/#writing-your-own-middleware

At present, the django instrumentor does not automatically capture them as spans, leaving large gaps of unaccounted time in the trace for applications that use them:

Describe the solution you'd like

Automated creation of spans for middleware calls in django.

Describe alternatives you've considered

• Manual creation of spans

• Decorating middleware functions

Additional Context

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Would you like to implement a fix?

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