Jaeger reporter

Jaeger is a distributed tracing system with support for OpenTracing.

Cinnamon Jaeger dependency

First make sure that your build is configured to use the Cinnamon Agent.

To enable the Jaeger reporter, add the following dependencies to your build:

sbt

copylibraryDependencies += Cinnamon.library.cinnamonOpenTracing
libraryDependencies += Cinnamon.library.cinnamonOpenTracingJaeger

Maven

copy<dependency>
  <groupId>com.lightbend.cinnamon</groupId>
  <artifactId>cinnamon-opentracing_2.12</artifactId>
  <version>2.18.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
  <groupId>com.lightbend.cinnamon</groupId>
  <artifactId>cinnamon-opentracing-jaeger</artifactId>
  <version>2.18.1</version>
</dependency>

Gradle

copydependencies {
    implementation group: 'com.lightbend.cinnamon', name: 'cinnamon-opentracing_2.12', version: '2.18.1'
    implementation group: 'com.lightbend.cinnamon', name: 'cinnamon-opentracing-jaeger', version: '2.18.1'
}

Jaeger configuration

Jaeger reporting can be configured. On the Example tab, there is a configuration that sets a different endpoint for the Jaeger agent by configuring the host and port settings:

Required

There is nothing to configure if you want to use the default Jaeger settings that will communicate with localhost on port 5775.

Example

copycinnamon.opentracing {
  jaeger {
    host = "localhost"
    port = 5432
  }
}

Reference

copycinnamon.opentracing {
  jaeger {

    # Host for Jaeger trace span collector
    host = "localhost"

    # UDP port for Jaeger trace span collector
    port = 5775

    # Max size for UDP packets
    max-packet-size = 65000

    # Flush interval for trace span reporter
    flush-interval = 1s

    # Max queue size of trace span reporter
    max-queue-size = 1000

  }
}

Note

These settings are defined in the reference.conf. You only need to specify any of these settings when you want to override the defaults.

Running Jaeger

See the Jaeger documentation for running Jaeger. The Jaeger getting started shows how to run Jaeger locally for development and testing.

Here’s what an example actor trace in Jaeger looks like:

Further tracer configuration

The OpenTracing integration for both Jaeger and Zipkin build on the Jaeger client. The tracer supports the following configuration:

Setting a service name for each node is useful. The service name can be configured specifically for tracing using the service-name setting (example below) or otherwise this will be based on the application name from the shared Cinnamon metadata. You can use the cinnamon.application setting to configure the same name for both metrics and tracing.

Global tags can be added to the tracer, which will be added to all trace spans (but note that global tracer tag keys are automatically prefixed with tracer.). See trace span tags for adding tags to specific types of spans, or all spans created by Cinnamon.

On the Example tab, there is a configuration that sets the service-name to my-component, sets a custom environment tag to staging, and configures a rate-limiting sampler with a maximum of 25 traces per second:

Required

There is nothing to configure if you want to use the default OpenTracing settings that will use the rate limiting sampler with 10 traces per second.

Example

copycinnamon.opentracing {
  tracer {
    service-name = "my-component"

    tags {
      environment = "staging"
    }

    sampler = rate-limiting-sampler

    rate-limiting-sampler {
      max-traces-per-second = 25
    }
  }
}

Reference

copycinnamon.opentracing {
  tracer {

    # Service name for this application, defaults to the `cinnamon.application` identifier when not set
    service-name = null

    # Enables AWS X-Ray Trace ID format
    # NOTE: Currently only Jaeger and Zipkin reporters support this
    aws-xray-trace-id-format = off

    # Tags added to all trace spans (key:value pairs)
    tags {}

    # Trace sampler to use
    sampler = rate-limiting-sampler

    rate-limiting-sampler {
      # Maximum number of sampled traces per second
      max-traces-per-second = 10
    }

    probabilistic-sampler {
      # Probabilistic sampling rate, between 0.0 and 1.0
      sampling-rate = 0.001
    }

    const-sampler {
      # Constant decision on whether to sample traces
      # Note: this sampler is NOT recommended for production
      decision = true
    }

    # Propagation codecs for cross-process tracing (multiple codecs can be active)
    # Include B3 propgation with: `cinnamon.opentracing.tracer.propagations += b3-propagation`
    propagations = [jaeger-propagation]

    jaeger-propagation {
      # Whether to URL encode the trace context for HTTP header propagation
      http-header-url-encoding = on
    }

    b3-propagation {
    }

    w3c-propagation {
    }

    # Log trace spans with SLF4J (can be used for debugging the tracer)
    # Set `cinnamon.opentracing.tracer.reporters += trace-logging`
    trace-logging {
      # Name of SLF4J logger to use when logging
      logger = "cinnamon.opentracing.Tracer"
    }

  }
}

Note

These settings are defined in the reference.conf. You only need to specify any of these settings when you want to override the defaults.