LightStep tracer

This documentation is for the Envoy v3 API.

As of Envoy v1.18 the v2 API has been removed and is no longer supported.

If you are upgrading from v2 API config you may wish to view the v2 API documentation:

config/trace/v2/lightstep.proto

config.trace.v3.LightstepConfig

Configuration for the LightStep tracer.

This extension may be referenced by the qualified name envoy.tracers.lightstep

Note

This extension is intended to be robust against untrusted downstream traffic. It assumes that the upstream is trusted.

Tip

This extension extends and can be used with the following extension category:

{
  "collector_cluster": "...",
  "access_token_file": "...",
  "access_token": "{...}",
  "propagation_modes": []
}

collector_cluster

(string, REQUIRED) The cluster manager cluster that hosts the LightStep collectors.

access_token_file

(string) File containing the access token to the LightStep API.

access_token

propagation_modes

(repeated config.trace.v3.LightstepConfig.PropagationMode) Propagation modes to use by LightStep’s tracer.

Available propagation modes

ENVOY

(DEFAULT) ⁣Propagate trace context in the single header x-ot-span-context.

LIGHTSTEP

⁣Propagate trace context using LightStep’s native format.

⁣Propagate trace context using the b3 format.

TRACE_CONTEXT

⁣Propagation trace context using the w3 trace-context standard.