tracetools

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Overview

Package tracetools provides an abstraction across tracing systems (OpenTelemetry, DataDog).

It is intended for internal use by buildkite-agent only.

Index

• Constants
• Variables
• func DecodeTraceContext(env map[string]string) (opentracing.SpanContext, error)
• func EncodeTraceContext(span opentracing.Span, env map[string]string) error
• type NoopSpan
  • func (s *NoopSpan) AddAttributes(attributes map[string]string)
  • func (s *NoopSpan) FinishWithError(err error)
  • func (s *NoopSpan) RecordError(err error)
• type OpenTelemetrySpan
  • func NewOpenTelemetrySpan(base trace.Span) *OpenTelemetrySpan
  • func (s *OpenTelemetrySpan) AddAttributes(attributes map[string]string)
  • func (s *OpenTelemetrySpan) FinishWithError(err error)
  • func (s *OpenTelemetrySpan) RecordError(err error)
• type OpenTracingSpan
  • func NewOpenTracingSpan(base opentracing.Span) *OpenTracingSpan
  • func (s *OpenTracingSpan) AddAttributes(attributes map[string]string)
  • func (s *OpenTracingSpan) FinishWithError(err error)
  • func (s *OpenTracingSpan) RecordError(err error)
• type Span
  • func StartSpanFromContext(ctx context.Context, operation string, tracingBackend string) (Span, context.Context)

Examples

• EncodeTraceContext

Constants

const (
	BackendDatadog       = "datadog"
	BackendOpenTelemetry = "opentelemetry"
	BackendNone          = ""
)

const EnvVarTraceContextKey = "BUILDKITE_TRACE_CONTEXT"

EnvVarTraceContextKey is the env var key that will be used to store/retrieve the encoded trace context information into env var maps.

Variables

var ValidTracingBackends = map[string]struct{}{
	BackendDatadog:       {},
	BackendOpenTelemetry: {},
	BackendNone:          {},
}

Functions

func DecodeTraceContext

func DecodeTraceContext(env map[string]string) (opentracing.SpanContext, error)

DecodeTraceContext will decode, deserialize, and extract the tracing data from the given env var map.

func EncodeTraceContext

func EncodeTraceContext(span opentracing.Span, env map[string]string) error

EncodeTraceContext will serialize and encode tracing data into a string and place it into the given env vars map.

Example

// Start and configure the tracer to use the propagator.
t := opentracer.New(
	// These args are just to ensure nothing actually gets sent if the test
	// platform actually has a DD agent running locally.
	// This is an unlikely, local, non-default agent address.
	tracer.WithAgentAddr("10.0.0.1:65534"),
	tracer.WithLogger(&nullLogger{}),
)
opentracing.SetGlobalTracer(t)
defer tracer.Stop()

childEnv := map[string]string{}

// Pretend this is the parent process' code
func() {
	span := opentracing.StartSpan("parent process")
	defer span.Finish()

	span.SetBaggageItem("asd", "zxc")

	// Do stuff..
	time.Sleep(time.Millisecond * 20)

	// Now say we want to launch a child process.
	// Prepare it's env vars. This will be the carrier for the tracing data.
	if err := EncodeTraceContext(span, childEnv); err != nil {
		fmt.Println("oops an error for parent process trace injection")
	}
	// Now childEnv will contain the encoded data set with the env var key.
	// Print stuff out for the purpose of the example test.
	if childEnv["BUILDKITE_TRACE_CONTEXT"] == "" {
		fmt.Println("oops empty tracing data in env vars")
	} else {
		fmt.Println("prepared child env carrier data")
	}

	// Normally, you'd now launch a child process with code like:
	// cmd := exec.Command("echo", "hello", "i", "am", "a", "child")
	// cmd.Env = ... // Propagate the env vars here
	// cmd.Run()
	// The important thing is the Env propagation
}()

// Pretend this is the child process' code
func() {
	// Make sure tracing is setup the same way (same env var key)
	// Normally you'd use os.Environ or similar here (the list of strings is
	// supported). We're just reusing childEnv for test simplicity.
	sctx, err := DecodeTraceContext(childEnv)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println("oops an error for child process trace extraction")
	} else {
		fmt.Println("extracted tracing data for child process")
	}

	sctx.ForeachBaggageItem(func(k, v string) bool {
		fmt.Printf("bag: %s=%s\n", k, v)
		return true
	})

	// Now you can start a 'root' span for the child that will also be linked to
	// the parent process.
	span := opentracing.StartSpan("child process", opentracing.ChildOf(sctx))
	defer span.Finish()

	// Do stuff...
	time.Sleep(time.Millisecond * 30)
}()

Output:

prepared child env carrier data
extracted tracing data for child process
bag: asd=zxc

Types

type NoopSpan

type NoopSpan struct{}

NoopSpan is an implementation of the Span interface that does nothing for every method implemented The intended use case is for instances where the user doesn't have tracing enabled - using NoopSpan, we can still act as though tracing is enabled, but every time we do something tracing related, nothing happens.

func (*NoopSpan) AddAttributes

func (s *NoopSpan) AddAttributes(attributes map[string]string)

AddAttributes is a noop

func (*NoopSpan) FinishWithError

func (s *NoopSpan) FinishWithError(err error)

FinishWithError is a noop

func (*NoopSpan) RecordError

func (s *NoopSpan) RecordError(err error)

RecordError is a noop

type OpenTelemetrySpan

type OpenTelemetrySpan struct {
	Span trace.Span
}

func NewOpenTelemetrySpan

func NewOpenTelemetrySpan(base trace.Span) *OpenTelemetrySpan

func (*OpenTelemetrySpan) AddAttributes

func (s *OpenTelemetrySpan) AddAttributes(attributes map[string]string)

AddAttributes adds the given attributes to the OpenTelemetry span. Only string attributes are accepted.

func (*OpenTelemetrySpan) FinishWithError

func (s *OpenTelemetrySpan) FinishWithError(err error)

FinishWithError adds error information to the OpenTelemetry span if error isn't nil, and records the span as having finished

func (*OpenTelemetrySpan) RecordError

func (s *OpenTelemetrySpan) RecordError(err error)

RecordError records an error on the given OpenTelemetry span. No-op when error is nil

type OpenTracingSpan

type OpenTracingSpan struct {
	Span opentracing.Span
}

func NewOpenTracingSpan

func NewOpenTracingSpan(base opentracing.Span) *OpenTracingSpan

func (*OpenTracingSpan) AddAttributes

func (s *OpenTracingSpan) AddAttributes(attributes map[string]string)

AddAttributes adds the given map of attributes to the span as OpenTracing tags

func (*OpenTracingSpan) FinishWithError

func (s *OpenTracingSpan) FinishWithError(err error)

FinishWithError adds error information to the OpenTracingSpan if error isn't nil, and records the span as having finished

func (*OpenTracingSpan) RecordError

func (s *OpenTracingSpan) RecordError(err error)

RecordError records an error on the given span

type Span

type Span interface {
	AddAttributes(map[string]string)
	FinishWithError(error)
	RecordError(error)
}

func StartSpanFromContext

func StartSpanFromContext(ctx context.Context, operation string, tracingBackend string) (Span, context.Context)

StartSpanFromContext will start a span appropriate to the given tracing backend from the given context with the given operation name. It will also do some common/repeated setup on the span to keep code a little more DRY. If an unknown tracing backend is specified, it will return a span that noops on every operation