@opencensus/exporter-instana

OpenCensus Instana Trace Exporter

OpenCensus Instana Trace Exporter allows the user to send collected traces with OpenCensus Node.js to Instana.

Instana is a distributed tracing system. Instana provides AI Powered Application and Infrastructure Monitoring, allowing you to deliver Faster With Confidence, and automatic Analysis and Optimization.

This project is still at an early stage of development. It's subject to change.

Installation

Install OpenCensus Instana Exporter with:

npm install @opencensus/nodejs
npm install @opencensus/exporter-instana

Usage

To use Instana as your exporter, first ensure that you have an Instana agent running on your system and reporting to your environment. The Instana OpenCensus exporter directly communicates with the Instana agent in order to transmit data to Instana.

const tracing = require('@opencensus/nodejs');
const instana = require('@opencensus/exporter-instana');

tracing.start({
  exporter: new instana.InstanaTraceExporter()
});

Useful links

• For more information on OpenCensus, visit: https://opencensus.io/
• For Instana project at https://www.instana.com/
• To checkout the OpenCensus for Node.js, visit: https://github.com/census-instrumentation/opencensus-node
• For help or feedback on this project, join us on gitter

Changelog

0.0.10 - 2019-04-03

• Add optional compressedSize and uncompressedSize params to Span.addMessageEvent
• Add support for tags, status and annotation in Zipkin exporter.
• Add support for Binary propagation format.
• Add support for object(SpanOptions) as an argument for startChildSpan function, similar to startRootSpan.
• Add proto files to exporter-ocagent package. Fixes issue #174.
• Remove ConfigStream behavior from exporter-ocagent. This was unstable and is not currently supported by any other language instrumentation.
• Change default exporter-ocagent port to 55678 to match the default OC Agent port.
• Add support for recording gRPC stats.
• Add support for recording HTTP stats.
• Enforce --strictNullChecks and --noUnusedLocals Compiler Options on [opencensus-instrumentation-http], [opencensus-instrumentation-grpc] and [opencensus-propagation-tracecontext] packages.
• Enforce --strictNullChecks and --noUnusedLocals Compiler Options on [opencensus-exporter-zipkin] packages.
• Add NoRecordRootSpan, NoRecordSpan and NoRecordSpanBase.
• Enforce --strictNullChecks and --noUnusedLocals Compiler Options on [opencensus-exporter-instana] package.
• Add an API globalStats.unregisterExporter().
• Add support for overriding sampling for a span.
• Enforce --strictNullChecks and --noUnusedLocals Compiler Options on [opencensus-exporter-jaeger] packages.
• Add support for recording Exemplars.
• Add TagMetadata that defines the properties associated with a Tag.
• Add HTTP/W3C text format serializer to Tag propagation component.
• Enforce --strictNullChecks and --noUnusedLocals Compiler Options on [opencensus-core] package.
• Please note that there is an API breaking change in methods addMessageEvent(). The field id is now number instead of string.
• Add support for recording exemplars.
• Add a NoRecord RootSpan and Span.
• Add support for child span count.
• Add [opencensus-instrumentation-ioredis] instrumentation plugin.
• Make Stackdriver propagation module consistent with other propagations interface.
• Add support for gRPC tags propagation.
• Use ts-mocha to run tests.
• Add MetricOptions to simplify all addXGauge.