hotrod

README

Hot R.O.D. - Rides on Demand

This is a demo application that consists of several microservices and illustrates the use of the OpenTracing API. It can be run standalone, but requires Jaeger backend to view the traces. A tutorial / walkthough is available:

• as a blog post Take OpenTracing for a HotROD ride,
• as a video OpenShift Commons Briefing: Distributed Tracing with Jaeger & Prometheus on Kubernetes.

Features

• Discover architecture of the whole system via data-driven dependency diagram
• View request timeline & errors, understand how the app works
• Find sources of latency, lack of concurrency
• Highly contextualized logging
• Use baggage propagation to
  • Diagnose inter-request contention (queueing)
  • Attribute time spent in a service
• Use open source libraries with OpenTracing integration to get vendor-neutral instrumentation for free

Running

Run Jaeger Backend

An all-in-one Jaeger backend is packaged as a Docker container with in-memory storage.

docker run -d -p6831:6831/udp -p16686:16686 jaegertracing/all-in-one:latest

Jaeger UI can be accessed at http://localhost:16686.

Run HotROD Application

go get github.com/uber/jaeger
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/uber/jaeger
make install_examples
cd examples/hotrod
go run ./main.go all

Then open http://127.0.0.1:8080