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What's the difference between this and opentracing? AFAIK opentracing is built by the people who created Dapper at Google, and the project also has a set of st
by tonyhb 9y ago
What's the difference between this and opentracing? AFAIK opentracing is built by the people who created Dapper at Google, and the project also has a set of standards for HTTP transport.
- mmclean 9y agoThey're different in scope and goals. Census is composed of a context propagation format (which the blog post mentioned), a single distribution of language-specific libraries that include instrumentation hooks for popular web / RPC frameworks and metrics + trace exporters for various backends, and an optional agent that you can run locally to view metrics and RPC stats.