jaeger_tracing

A work thorough with Jaeger tracing tool

Installing

This repository uses Maven to manage dependencies. To install all dependencies, run:

cd opentracing-tutorial/java
mvn package

All subsequent commands in the tutorials should be executed relative to this java directory.

Lessons

• Lesson 01 - Hello World
  • Instantiate a Tracer
  • Create a simple trace
  • Annotate the trace
• Lesson 02 - Context and Tracing Functions
  • Trace individual functions
  • Combine multiple spans into a single trace
  • Propagate the in-process context
• Lesson 03 - Tracing RPC Requests
  • Trace a transaction across more than one microservice
  • Pass the context between processes using Inject and Extract
  • Apply OpenTracing-recommended tags
• Lesson 04 - Baggage
  • Understand distributed context propagation
  • Use baggage to pass data through the call graph
• Extra Credit
  • Use existing open source instrumentation