Tracing Alternatives

tracing reviews and mentions

• Show HN: Unbug – Rust macros for programmatically invoking breakpoints
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Nov 2024
• Using Polars in Rust for high-performance data analysis
  9 projects | dev.to | 30 Oct 2024

  We’ll use Axum with Tokio to build a web backend, Tracing for logging, and Serde for serialization and deserialization.

• Powerful Visibility with Rust, Lambda, Datadog, and OpenTelemetry
  4 projects | dev.to | 2 Aug 2024

  I'm using Tokio's tracing library which provides the ability to plug layers into the writer. One of those layers happens to be an OTel layer. With OpenTelemetry, I can define endpoints where I'm going to send my traces. Normally, I'd send over HTTP or gRPC and the standard ports, but there is an additional crate I'm using that is not maintained by Datadog but it is community-supported. That crate is called opentelemetry-datadog and it helps establish the pipeline, service name, endpoint, and API version that the Datadog extension will recognize.

• Decrusting the tracing crate [video] by Jon Gjengset
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Feb 2024

  The video description is as follows:

  In this stream, we peel back the crust on the tracing crate — https://github.com/tokio-rs/tracing/ — and explore its interface, structure, and mechanisms. We talk about spans, events, their attributes and fields, and how to think about them in async code. We also dig into what subscribers are, how they pick up events, and how you can construct your own subscribers through the layer abstraction. For more details about tracing, see https://docs.rs/tracing/latest/tracing/.

• Vendor lock-in is in the small details
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Oct 2023

  > What's been your biggest issues around ergonomics/amenities for OpenTelemetry?

  I can't speak generally, but in the Rust ecosystem the various crates don't play well together. Here's one example: <https://github.com/tokio-rs/tracing/issues/2648> There are four crates involved (tracing-attributes, tracing-opentelemetry, opentelemetry, and opentelemetry-datadog) and none of them fit properly into any of the others.

• Grimoire - A recipe management application.
  7 projects | /r/rust | 5 Oct 2023

  The tracing (logging) mechanism in an asynchronous codebase (tracing).

• How easy is it to swap out your async runtime?
  2 projects | /r/rust | 10 Jul 2023

  Tracing is Tokio's alternative for async code.

• Hey Rustaceans! Got a question? Ask here (27/2023)!
  9 projects | /r/rust | 3 Jul 2023

  At a technical level, in Rust, both [tracing]https://crates.io/crates/tracing) and log are entire ecosystems (though for the latter at least there's also third party logging frameworks), and there's at least a bridge from log to tracing.

• How can I write a tracing subscriber that saves to a database?
  1 project | /r/rust | 3 Jul 2023

  I am using https://github.com/tokio-rs/tracing for logging purposes in my application. I would like to develop a feature wherein logs should be saved to a database table (via sea-orm). Something similar is this, but it does not solve my needs fully.

• A locking war story
  2 projects | /r/rust | 1 Jun 2023

  I've used the tracing infrastructure with tracing_flame to profile some hot paths in async code: https://github.com/tokio-rs/tracing/tree/master/tracing-flame

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