tracer

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Overview

Package tracer contains Datadog's core tracing client. It is used to trace requests as they flow across web servers, databases and microservices, giving developers visibility into bottlenecks and troublesome requests. To start the tracer, simply call the start method along with an optional set of options. By default, the trace agent is considered to be found at "localhost:8126". In a setup where this would be different (let's say 127.0.0.1:1234), we could do: 

tracer.Start(tracer.WithAgentAddr("127.0.0.1:1234"))
defer tracer.Stop()

The tracing client can perform trace sampling. While the trace agent already samples traces to reduce bandwidth usage, client sampling reduces performance overhead. To make use of it, the package comes with a ready-to-use rate sampler that can be passed to the tracer. To use it and keep only 30% of the requests, one would do: 

s := tracer.NewRateSampler(0.3)
tracer.Start(tracer.WithSampler(s))

More precise control of sampling rates can be configured using sampling rules. This can be applied based on span name, service or both, and is used to determine the sampling rate to apply. 

rules := []tracer.SamplingRule{
      // sample 10% of traces with the span name "web.request"
      tracer.NameRule("web.request", 0.1),
      // sample 20% of traces for the service "test-service"
      tracer.ServiceRule("test-service", 0.2),
      // sample 30% of traces when the span name is "db.query" and the service
      // is "postgres.db"
      tracer.NameServiceRule("db.query", "postgres.db", 0.3),
      // sample 100% of traces when service and name match these regular expressions
      {Service: regexp.MustCompile("^test-"), Name: regexp.MustCompile("http\\..*"), Rate: 1.0},
}
tracer.Start(tracer.WithSamplingRules(rules))
defer tracer.Stop()

Sampling rules can also be configured at runtime using the DD_TRACE_SAMPLING_RULES environment variable. When set, it overrides rules set by tracer.WithSamplingRules. The value is a JSON array of objects. Each object must have a "sample_rate", and the "name" and "service" fields are optional. 

export DD_TRACE_SAMPLING_RULES='[{"name": "web.request", "sample_rate": 1.0}]'

To create spans, use the functions StartSpan and StartSpanFromContext. Both accept StartSpanOptions that can be used to configure the span. A span that is started with no parent will begin a new trace. See the function documentation for details on specific usage. Each trace has a hard limit of 100,000 spans, after which the trace will be dropped and give a diagnostic log message. In practice users should not approach this limit as traces of this size are not useful and impossible to visualize.

See the contrib package ( https://pkg.go.dev/gopkg.in/DataDog/dd-trace-go.v1/contrib ) for integrating datadog with various libraries, frameworks and clients.

All spans created by the tracer contain a context hereby referred to as the span context. Note that this is different from Go's context. The span context is used to package essential information from a span, which is needed when creating child spans that inherit from it. Thus, a child span is created from a span's span context. The span context can originate from within the same process, but also a different process or even a different machine in the case of distributed tracing.

To make use of distributed tracing, a span's context may be injected via a carrier into a transport (HTTP, RPC, etc.) to be extracted on the other end and used to create spans that are direct descendants of it. A couple of carrier interfaces which should cover most of the use-case scenarios are readily provided, such as HTTPCarrier and TextMapCarrier. Users are free to create their own, which will work with our propagation algorithm as long as they implement the TextMapReader and TextMapWriter interfaces. An example alternate implementation is the MDCarrier in our gRPC integration.

As an example, injecting a span's context into an HTTP request would look like this: 

req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "http://example.com", nil)
// ...
err := tracer.Inject(span.Context(), tracer.HTTPHeadersCarrier(req.Header))
// ...
http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

Then, on the server side, to continue the trace one would do: 

sctx, err := tracer.Extract(tracer.HTTPHeadersCarrier(req.Header))
// ...
span := tracer.StartSpan("child.span", tracer.ChildOf(sctx))

In the same manner, any means can be used as a carrier to inject a context into a transport. Go's context can also be used as a means to transport spans within the same process. The methods StartSpanFromContext, ContextWithSpan and SpanFromContext exist for this reason.

Some libraries and frameworks are supported out-of-the-box by using one of our integrations. You can see a list of supported integrations here: https://godoc.org/gopkg.in/DataDog/dd-trace-go.v1/contrib

Example

A basic example demonstrating how to start the tracer, as well as how to create a root span and a child span that is a descendant of it. 

// Start the tracer and defer the Stop method.
Start(WithAgentAddr("host:port"))
defer Stop()

// Start a root span.
span := StartSpan("get.data")
defer span.Finish()

// Create a child of it, computing the time needed to read a file.
child := StartSpan("read.file", ChildOf(span.Context()))
child.SetTag(ext.ResourceName, "test.json")

// Perform an operation.
_, err := ioutil.ReadFile("~/test.json")

// We may finish the child span using the returned error. If it's
// nil, it will be disregarded.
child.Finish(WithError(err))
if err != nil {
	log.Fatal(err)
}

Output:

Index

Examples

Constants

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const (
	// DefaultBaggageHeaderPrefix specifies the prefix that will be used in
	// HTTP headers or text maps to prefix baggage keys.
	DefaultBaggageHeaderPrefix = "ot-baggage-"

	// DefaultTraceIDHeader specifies the key that will be used in HTTP headers
	// or text maps to store the trace ID.
	DefaultTraceIDHeader = "x-datadog-trace-id"

	// DefaultParentIDHeader specifies the key that will be used in HTTP headers
	// or text maps to store the parent ID.
	DefaultParentIDHeader = "x-datadog-parent-id"

	// DefaultPriorityHeader specifies the key that will be used in HTTP headers
	// or text maps to store the sampling priority value.
	DefaultPriorityHeader = "x-datadog-sampling-priority"
)

Variables

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var (
	// ErrInvalidCarrier is returned when the carrier provided to the propagator
	// does not implemented the correct interfaces.
	ErrInvalidCarrier = errors.New("invalid carrier")

	// ErrInvalidSpanContext is returned when the span context found in the
	// carrier is not of the expected type.
	ErrInvalidSpanContext = errors.New("invalid span context")

	// ErrSpanContextCorrupted is returned when there was a problem parsing
	// the information found in the carrier.
	ErrSpanContextCorrupted = errors.New("span context corrupted")

	// ErrSpanContextNotFound represents missing information in the given carrier.
	ErrSpanContextNotFound = errors.New("span context not found")
)

Functions

func ContextWithSpan 

func ContextWithSpan(ctx context.Context, s Span) context.Context

ContextWithSpan returns a copy of the given context which includes the span s.

func Extract 

func Extract(carrier interface{}) (ddtrace.SpanContext, error)

Extract extracts a SpanContext from the carrier. The carrier is expected to implement TextMapReader, otherwise an error is returned. If the tracer is not started, calling this function is a no-op.

func Flush added in v1.35.4 

func Flush()

Flush flushes any buffered traces. Flush is in effect only if a tracer is started. Users do not have to call Flush in order to ensure that traces reach Datadog. It is a convenience method dedicated to a specific use case described below.

Flush is of use in Lambda environments, where starting and stopping the tracer on each invokation may create too much latency. In this scenario, a tracer may be started and stopped by the parent process whereas the invokation can make use of Flush to ensure any created spans reach the agent.

func Inject 

func Inject(ctx ddtrace.SpanContext, carrier interface{}) error

Inject injects the given SpanContext into the carrier. The carrier is expected to implement TextMapWriter, otherwise an error is returned. If the tracer is not started, calling this function is a no-op.

func Start 

func Start(opts ...StartOption)

Start starts the tracer with the given set of options. It will stop and replace any running tracer, meaning that calling it several times will result in a restart of the tracer by replacing the current instance with a new one.

func Stop 

func Stop()

Stop stops the started tracer. Subsequent calls are valid but become no-op.

Types

type FinishOption 

type FinishOption = ddtrace.FinishOption

FinishOption is a configuration option for FinishSpan. It is aliased in order to help godoc group all the functions returning it together. It is considered more correct to refer to it as the type as the origin, ddtrace.FinishOption.

func FinishTime 

func FinishTime(t time.Time) FinishOption

FinishTime sets the given time as the finishing time for the span. By default, the current time is used.

func NoDebugStack added in v1.5.0 

func NoDebugStack() FinishOption

NoDebugStack prevents any error presented using the WithError finishing option from generating a stack trace. This is useful in situations where errors are frequent and performance is critical.

func StackFrames added in v1.14.0 

func StackFrames(n, skip uint) FinishOption

StackFrames limits the number of stack frames included into erroneous spans to n, starting from skip.

func WithError 

func WithError(err error) FinishOption

WithError marks the span as having had an error. It uses the information from err to set tags such as the error message, error type and stack trace. It has no effect if the error is nil.

type HTTPHeadersCarrier 

type HTTPHeadersCarrier http.Header

HTTPHeadersCarrier wraps an http.Header as a TextMapWriter and TextMapReader, allowing it to be used using the provided Propagator implementation.

func (HTTPHeadersCarrier) ForeachKey 

func (c HTTPHeadersCarrier) ForeachKey(handler func(key, val string) error) error

ForeachKey implements TextMapReader.

func (HTTPHeadersCarrier) Set 

func (c HTTPHeadersCarrier) Set(key, val string)

Set implements TextMapWriter.

type Propagator 

type Propagator interface {
	// Inject takes the SpanContext and injects it into the carrier.
	Inject(context ddtrace.SpanContext, carrier interface{}) error

	// Extract returns the SpanContext from the given carrier.
	Extract(carrier interface{}) (ddtrace.SpanContext, error)
}

Propagator implementations should be able to inject and extract SpanContexts into an implementation specific carrier.

func NewPropagator 

func NewPropagator(cfg *PropagatorConfig) Propagator

NewPropagator returns a new propagator which uses TextMap to inject and extract values. It propagates trace and span IDs and baggage. To use the defaults, nil may be provided in place of the config.

type PropagatorConfig 

type PropagatorConfig struct {
	// BaggagePrefix specifies the prefix that will be used to store baggage
	// items in a map. It defaults to DefaultBaggageHeaderPrefix.
	BaggagePrefix string

	// TraceHeader specifies the map key that will be used to store the trace ID.
	// It defaults to DefaultTraceIDHeader.
	TraceHeader string

	// ParentHeader specifies the map key that will be used to store the parent ID.
	// It defaults to DefaultParentIDHeader.
	ParentHeader string

	// PriorityHeader specifies the map key that will be used to store the sampling priority.
	// It deafults to DefaultPriorityHeader.
	PriorityHeader string
}

PropagatorConfig defines the configuration for initializing a propagator.

type RateSampler 

type RateSampler interface {
	Sampler

	// Rate returns the current sample rate.
	Rate() float64

	// SetRate sets a new sample rate.
	SetRate(rate float64)
}

RateSampler is a sampler implementation which randomly selects spans using a provided rate. For example, a rate of 0.75 will permit 75% of the spans. RateSampler implementations should be safe for concurrent use.

func NewAllSampler 

func NewAllSampler() RateSampler

NewAllSampler is a short-hand for NewRateSampler(1). It is all-permissive.

func NewRateSampler 

func NewRateSampler(rate float64) RateSampler

NewRateSampler returns an initialized RateSampler with a given sample rate.

type Sampler 

type Sampler interface {
	// Sample returns true if the given span should be sampled.
	Sample(span Span) bool
}

Sampler is the generic interface of any sampler. It must be safe for concurrent use.

type SamplingRule added in v1.24.0 

type SamplingRule struct {
	Service *regexp.Regexp
	Name    *regexp.Regexp
	Rate    float64
	// contains filtered or unexported fields
}

SamplingRule is used for applying sampling rates to spans that match the service name, operation name or both. For basic usage, consider using the helper functions ServiceRule, NameRule, etc.

func NameRule added in v1.24.0 

func NameRule(name string, rate float64) SamplingRule

NameRule returns a SamplingRule that applies the provided sampling rate to spans that match the operation name provided.

func NameServiceRule added in v1.24.0 

func NameServiceRule(name string, service string, rate float64) SamplingRule

NameServiceRule returns a SamplingRule that applies the provided sampling rate to spans matching both the operation and service names provided.

func RateRule added in v1.24.0 

func RateRule(rate float64) SamplingRule

RateRule returns a SamplingRule that applies the provided sampling rate to all spans.

func ServiceRule added in v1.24.0 

func ServiceRule(service string, rate float64) SamplingRule

ServiceRule returns a SamplingRule that applies the provided sampling rate to spans that match the service name provided.

func (*SamplingRule) MarshalJSON added in v1.35.4 

func (sr *SamplingRule) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error)

MarshalJSON implements the json.Marshaler interface.

type Span 

type Span = ddtrace.Span

Span is an alias for ddtrace.Span. It is here to allow godoc to group methods returning ddtrace.Span. It is recommended and is considered more correct to refer to this type as ddtrace.Span instead.

func SpanFromContext 

func SpanFromContext(ctx context.Context) (Span, bool)

SpanFromContext returns the span contained in the given context. A second return value indicates if a span was found in the context. If no span is found, a no-op span is returned.

func StartSpan 

func StartSpan(operationName string, opts ...StartSpanOption) Span

StartSpan starts a new span with the given operation name and set of options. If the tracer is not started, calling this function is a no-op.

func StartSpanFromContext 

func StartSpanFromContext(ctx context.Context, operationName string, opts ...StartSpanOption) (Span, context.Context)

StartSpanFromContext returns a new span with the given operation name and options. If a span is found in the context, it will be used as the parent of the resulting span. If the ChildOf option is passed, the span from context will take precedence over it as the parent span.

type StartOption 

type StartOption func(*config)

StartOption represents a function that can be provided as a parameter to Start.

func WithAgentAddr 

func WithAgentAddr(addr string) StartOption

WithAgentAddr sets the address where the agent is located. The default is localhost:8126. It should contain both host and port.

func WithAnalytics added in v1.11.0 

func WithAnalytics(on bool) StartOption

WithAnalytics allows specifying whether Trace Search & Analytics should be enabled for integrations.

func WithAnalyticsRate added in v1.11.0 

func WithAnalyticsRate(rate float64) StartOption

WithAnalyticsRate sets the global sampling rate for sampling APM events.

func WithDebugMode 

func WithDebugMode(enabled bool) StartOption

WithDebugMode enables debug mode on the tracer, resulting in more verbose logging.

func WithDebugStack added in v1.35.4 

func WithDebugStack(enabled bool) StartOption

WithDebugStack can be used to globally enable or disable the collection of stack traces when spans finish with errors. It is enabled by default. This is a global version of the NoDebugStack FinishOption.

func WithDogstatsdAddress added in v1.18.0 

func WithDogstatsdAddress(addr string) StartOption

WithDogstatsdAddress specifies the address to connect to for sending metrics to the Datadog Agent. If not set, it defaults to "localhost:8125" or to the combination of the environment variables DD_AGENT_HOST and DD_DOGSTATSD_PORT. This option is in effect when WithRuntimeMetrics is enabled.

func WithEnv added in v1.20.0 

func WithEnv(env string) StartOption

WithEnv sets the environment to which all traces started by the tracer will be submitted. The default value is the environment variable DD_ENV, if it is set.

func WithFeatureFlags added in v1.35.4 

func WithFeatureFlags(feats ...string) StartOption

WithFeatureFlags specifies a set of feature flags to enable. Please take into account that most, if not all features flags are considered to be experimental and result in unexpected bugs.

func WithGlobalTag 

func WithGlobalTag(k string, v interface{}) StartOption

WithGlobalTag sets a key/value pair which will be set as a tag on all spans created by tracer. This option may be used multiple times.

func WithHTTPClient added in v1.24.0 

func WithHTTPClient(client *http.Client) StartOption

WithHTTPClient specifies the HTTP client to use when emitting spans to the agent.

func WithHTTPRoundTripper added in v1.7.0 

func WithHTTPRoundTripper(r http.RoundTripper) StartOption

WithHTTPRoundTripper is deprecated. Please consider using WithHTTPClient instead. The function allows customizing the underlying HTTP transport for emitting spans.

func WithHostname added in v1.35.4 

func WithHostname(name string) StartOption

WithHostname allows specifying the hostname with which to mark outgoing traces.

func WithLambdaMode added in v1.35.4 

func WithLambdaMode(enabled bool) StartOption

WithLambdaMode enables lambda mode on the tracer, for use with AWS Lambda.

func WithLogStartup added in v1.35.4 

func WithLogStartup(enabled bool) StartOption

WithLogStartup allows enabling or disabling the startup log.

func WithLogger added in v1.15.0 

func WithLogger(logger ddtrace.Logger) StartOption

WithLogger sets logger as the tracer's error printer.

func WithPrioritySampling added in v1.7.0 

func WithPrioritySampling() StartOption

WithPrioritySampling is deprecated, and priority sampling is enabled by default. When using distributed tracing, the priority sampling value is propagated in order to get all the parts of a distributed trace sampled. To learn more about priority sampling, please visit: https://docs.datadoghq.com/tracing/getting_further/trace_sampling_and_storage/#priority-sampling-for-distributed-tracing

func WithProfilerCodeHotspots added in v1.35.4 

func WithProfilerCodeHotspots(enabled bool) StartOption

WithProfilerCodeHotspots enables the code hotspots integration between the tracer and profiler. This is done by automatically attaching pprof labels called "span id" and "local root span id" when new spans are created. You should not use these label names in your own code when this is enabled. The enabled value defaults to the value of the DD_PROFILING_CODE_HOTSPOTS_COLLECTION_ENABLED env variable or false.

func WithProfilerEndpoints added in v1.35.4 

func WithProfilerEndpoints(enabled bool) StartOption

WithProfilerEndpoints enables the endpoints integration between the tracer and profiler. This is done by automatically attaching a pprof label called "trace endpoint" holding the resource name of the top-level service span if its type is http or rpc. You should not use this label name in your own code when this is enabled. The enabled value defaults to the value of the DD_PROFILING_ENDPOINT_COLLECTION_ENABLED env variable or false.

func WithPropagator 

func WithPropagator(p Propagator) StartOption

WithPropagator sets an alternative propagator to be used by the tracer.

func WithRuntimeMetrics added in v1.18.0 

func WithRuntimeMetrics() StartOption

WithRuntimeMetrics enables automatic collection of runtime metrics every 10 seconds.

func WithSampler 

func WithSampler(s Sampler) StartOption

WithSampler sets the given sampler to be used with the tracer. By default an all-permissive sampler is used.

func WithSamplingRules added in v1.24.0 

func WithSamplingRules(rules []SamplingRule) StartOption

WithSamplingRules specifies the sampling rates to apply to spans based on the provided rules.

func WithService added in v1.24.0 

func WithService(name string) StartOption

WithService sets the default service name for the program.

func WithServiceMapping added in v1.35.4 

func WithServiceMapping(from, to string) StartOption

WithServiceMapping determines service "from" to be renamed to service "to". This option is is case sensitive and can be used multiple times.

func WithServiceName 

func WithServiceName(name string) StartOption

WithServiceName is deprecated. Please use WithService. If you are using an older version and you are upgrading from WithServiceName to WithService, please note that WithService will determine the service name of server and framework integrations.

func WithServiceVersion added in v1.24.0 

func WithServiceVersion(version string) StartOption

WithServiceVersion specifies the version of the service that is running. This will be included in spans from this service in the "version" tag.

func WithTraceEnabled added in v1.35.4 

func WithTraceEnabled(enabled bool) StartOption

WithTraceEnabled allows specifying whether tracing will be enabled

func WithUDS added in v1.35.4 

func WithUDS(socketPath string) StartOption

WithUDS configures the HTTP client to dial the Datadog Agent via the specified Unix Domain Socket path.

type StartSpanOption 

type StartSpanOption = ddtrace.StartSpanOption

StartSpanOption is a configuration option for StartSpan. It is aliased in order to help godoc group all the functions returning it together. It is considered more correct to refer to it as the type as the origin, ddtrace.StartSpanOption.

func AnalyticsRate added in v1.24.0 

func AnalyticsRate(rate float64) StartSpanOption

AnalyticsRate sets a custom analytics rate for a span. It decides the percentage of events that will be picked up by the App Analytics product. It's represents a float64 between 0 and 1 where 0.5 would represent 50% of events.

func ChildOf 

func ChildOf(ctx ddtrace.SpanContext) StartSpanOption

ChildOf tells StartSpan to use the given span context as a parent for the created span.

func Measured added in v1.24.0 

func Measured() StartSpanOption

Measured marks this span to be measured for metrics and stats calculations.

func ResourceName 

func ResourceName(name string) StartSpanOption

ResourceName sets the given resource name on the started span. A resource could be an SQL query, a URL, an RPC method or something else.

func ServiceName 

func ServiceName(name string) StartSpanOption

ServiceName sets the given service name on the started span. For example "http.server".

func SpanType 

func SpanType(name string) StartSpanOption

SpanType sets the given span type on the started span. Some examples in the case of the Datadog APM product could be "web", "db" or "cache".

func StartTime 

func StartTime(t time.Time) StartSpanOption

StartTime sets a custom time as the start time for the created span. By default a span is started using the creation time.

func Tag 

func Tag(k string, v interface{}) StartSpanOption

Tag sets the given key/value pair as a tag on the started Span.

func WithSpanID added in v1.10.0 

func WithSpanID(id uint64) StartSpanOption

WithSpanID sets the SpanID on the started span, instead of using a random number. If there is no parent Span (eg from ChildOf), then the TraceID will also be set to the value given here.

type TextMapCarrier 

type TextMapCarrier map[string]string

TextMapCarrier allows the use of a regular map[string]string as both TextMapWriter and TextMapReader, making it compatible with the provided Propagator.

func (TextMapCarrier) ForeachKey 

func (c TextMapCarrier) ForeachKey(handler func(key, val string) error) error

ForeachKey conforms to the TextMapReader interface.

func (TextMapCarrier) Set 

func (c TextMapCarrier) Set(key, val string)

Set implements TextMapWriter.

type TextMapReader 

type TextMapReader interface {
	// ForeachKey iterates over all keys that exist in the underlying
	// carrier. It takes a callback function which will be called
	// using all key/value pairs as arguments. ForeachKey will return
	// the first error returned by the handler.
	ForeachKey(handler func(key, val string) error) error
}

TextMapReader allows iterating over sets of key/value pairs. Carriers implementing TextMapReader are compatible to be used with Datadog's TextMapPropagator.

type TextMapWriter 

type TextMapWriter interface {
	// Set sets the given key/value pair.
	Set(key, val string)
}

TextMapWriter allows setting key/value pairs of strings on the underlying data structure. Carriers implementing TextMapWriter are compatible to be used with Datadog's TextMapPropagator.

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