lightstep-tracer

lightstep-tracer

LightStep implementation of the OpenTracing API.

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Installation

npm install --save lightstep-tracer opentracing

Getting Started

var Tracer = require('opentracing');
var LightStep = require('lightstep-tracer');

Tracer.initialize({
    backend      : LightStep.createOpenTracingAdapter(),
    group_name   : "my_server",
    access_token : "{your_access_token}"
});

// Send a regular global log along with a data payload
Tracer.info('Hello Tracer', { "now" : Date.now() });

// Send a span record for a given operation
var span = Tracer.span('trivial/sample_span');
span.tags({ 'end_user_id', 'john_smith' });
span.info('User data', {
    favorite_number : 42,
});
span.end();

See example/hello_world for a longer example.

Supported Platforms

• Node: Node versions >= 0.12 are supported.

License

The MIT License.

Copyright (c) 2015, Resonance Labs.