Jaeger Tracing Middleware

Trace requests on Echo framework with Jaeger Tracing Middleware.

Usage

package main
import (
    "github.com/labstack/echo-contrib/jaegertracing"
    "github.com/labstack/echo/v4"
)
func main() {
    e := echo.New()
    // Enable tracing middleware
    c := jaegertracing.New(e, nil)
    defer c.Close()
    e.Logger.Fatal(e.Start(":1323"))
}

Enabling the tracing middleware creates a tracer and a root tracing span for every request.

Custom Configuration

By default, traces are sent to localhost Jaeger agent instance. To configure an external Jaeger, start your application with environment variables.

Usage

$ JAEGER_AGENT_HOST=192.168.1.10 JAEGER_AGENT_PORT=6831 ./myserver

The tracer can be initialized with values coming from environment variables. None of the env vars are requiredand all of them can be overriden via direct setting of the property on the configuration object.

By default, the client sends traces via UDP to the agent at localhost:6831. Use JAEGER_AGENT_HOST andJAEGER_AGENT_PORT to send UDP traces to a different host:port. If JAEGER_ENDPOINT is set, the client sends tracesto the endpoint via HTTP, making the JAEGER_AGENT_HOST and JAEGER_AGENT_PORT unused. If JAEGER_ENDPOINT issecured, HTTP basic authentication can be performed by setting the JAEGER_USER and JAEGER_PASSWORD environmentvariables.

Middleware Skipper

A middleware skipper can be passed to avoid tracing spans to certain URLs:

Usage

package main
import (
    "strings"
    "github.com/labstack/echo-contrib/jaegertracing"
    "github.com/labstack/echo/v4"
)
// urlSkipper ignores metrics route on some middleware
func urlSkipper(c echo.Context) bool {
    if strings.HasPrefix(c.Path(), "/testurl") {
        return true
    }
    return false
}
func main() {
    e := echo.New()
    // Enable tracing middleware
    c := jaegertracing.New(e, urlSkipper)
    defer c.Close()
    e.Logger.Fatal(e.Start(":1323"))
}

TraceFunction

This is a wrapper function that can be used to seamlessly add a span forthe duration of the invoked function. There is no need to change function arguments.

Usage

package main
import (
    "github.com/labstack/echo-contrib/jaegertracing"
    "github.com/labstack/echo/v4"
    "net/http"
    "time"
)
func main() {
    e := echo.New()
    // Enable tracing middleware
    c := jaegertracing.New(e, nil)
    defer c.Close()
    e.GET("/", func(c echo.Context) error {
        // Wrap slowFunc on a new span to trace it's execution passing the function arguments
        jaegertracing.TraceFunction(c, slowFunc, "Test String")
        return c.String(http.StatusOK, "Hello, World!")
    })
    e.Logger.Fatal(e.Start(":1323"))
}
// A function to be wrapped. No need to change it's arguments due to tracing
func slowFunc(s string) {
    time.Sleep(200 * time.Millisecond)
    return
}

CreateChildSpan

For more control over the Span, the function CreateChildSpan can be calledgiving control on data to be appended to the span like log messages, baggages and tags.

Usage

package main
import (
    "github.com/labstack/echo-contrib/jaegertracing"
    "github.com/labstack/echo/v4"
)
func main() {
    e := echo.New()
    // Enable tracing middleware
    c := jaegertracing.New(e, nil)
    defer c.Close()
    e.GET("/", func(c echo.Context) error {
        // Do something before creating the child span
        time.Sleep(40 * time.Millisecond)
        sp := jaegertracing.CreateChildSpan(c, "Child span for additional processing")
        defer sp.Finish()
        sp.LogEvent("Test log")
        sp.SetBaggageItem("Test baggage", "baggage")
        sp.SetTag("Test tag", "New Tag")
        time.Sleep(100 * time.Millisecond)
        return c.String(http.StatusOK, "Hello, World!")
    })
    e.Logger.Fatal(e.Start(":1323"))
}

References:

• Opentracing Library: https://github.com/opentracing/opentracing-go
• Jaeger configuration: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger-client-go#environment-variables