Open Tracing on Kubernetes —Get Your Traces for Free

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  • java-specialagent

    Automatic instrumentation for 3rd-party libraries in Java applications with OpenTracing.

  • Amongst the treasures found within the opentracing-contrib project is a Java special agent. By plugging this into our app via the -javaagent JVM flag we can fully enable tracing across any commonly used 3rd party libraries without changing any code or rebuilding the project. The list of instrumented libraries is pretty comprehensive — Jersey, Cassandra drivers, MongoDB drivers to name but a few.

  • auto-tracing-webhook

  • The full source is available here, but at it’s simplest the webhook will:

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