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   by mmclean 3y ago

   Likely Prometheus - Jaeger for tracing, Elastic for logs, Prometheus for metrics is a pretty common and effective OSS observability stack
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   by mmclean 6y ago

   Some of their engineers have made PRs to the OpenTelemetry JS repository, but it wouldn't have been mature enough (or even existed) when much of the work described in the blog was underway.
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   by mmclean 6y ago

   Regarding Google Cloud Profiler (I'm the PM), this is for a few reasons: - We have good support for Go, Java, JS, and Python, but are still adding a few features for these languages (MUSL support for Alpine just shipped, still need to
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   by mmclean 7y ago

   Existing tracing systems (Dapper, Zipkin, Dynatrace, Stackdriver, etc.) already randomize with each hop, and there was a desire to be consistent with the models that they already used. It's also more straightforward to implement. There
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   by mmclean 7y ago

   FYI for all, the W3C TraceContext specification will become a Proposed Recommendation later this week. I'm one of the co-chairs of the group and am happy to answer questions about our W3C work or OpenTelemetry.
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   by mmclean 7y ago

   W3C Trace Context defines an HTTP header format for traced requests, and OpenTelemetry implements this format by default. While this project is technically distinct from OpenTelemetry, it's effectively composed of the same people (incl
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   by mmclean 7y ago

   Right now we're focused on the first release of OpenTelemetry, which will include distributed traces and metrics. Many users and contributors have asked for logging support, and this was already a big discussion topic in the pre-merger
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   by mmclean 8y ago

   Ah, got it. We've discussed exactly this (within Google) with some of the Kubernetes maintainers who have similar wishes to yourself. The most immediate z-pages related work is focused on making them better in the more general case, as
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   by mmclean 8y ago

   Yep! The Java library has some basic z-page support, but adding high quality z-pages will be a big part of the OpenCensus agent and OpenCensus service that we're developing now. These can be used within Kubernetes environments or on pl
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    by mmclean 8y ago

    You can send traces to Jaeger, Zipkin, Stackdriver, Azure App Insights, X-Ray, Honeycomb, and a few others. Supported metrics backends include Prometheus, Datadog, SignalFx, Stackdriver, Azure, etc.
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    by mmclean 8y ago

    Another OpenCensus maintainer here, happy to answer questions along with Nik
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    by mmclean 8y ago

    [SD APM PM here] Yep, we support Java / JVM, Node.js, and Go; Python is coming soon
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    by mmclean 9y ago

    FYI, OpenCensus doesn't lock you in to a specific provider, rather it includes its own tracing implementation and exports traces back to your provider of choice
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    by mmclean 9y ago

    OpenCensus [1] provides an implementation for tracing and app-level metrics, a context wire protocol, and exporters for various backends. While it provides similar tracing APIs to OpenTracing, they're not identical, though there have b
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    by mmclean 9y ago

    They'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 / RP
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    by mmclean 9y ago

    PM for tracing at Google here. As the blog post mentioned, we're collaborating with partners on a common RPC context proposal for tracing systems [1]. Some of the major contributors are currently on vacation, but there'll be be an
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    Add log statements to your app on the fly with Stackdriver Debugger Logpoints(cloudplatform.googleblog.com)

    5 points by mmclean 9y ago|1 comments
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    by mmclean 10y ago

    Yep, an issue with the anchor links that'll be updated soon. It's supposed to just link to a lower part of the page. If you scroll down you'll see a top-level header also titled "Configure Zipkin tracers" that descr
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    by mmclean 10y ago

    Nevermind, I think we found it. Fixing now.
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    by mmclean 10y ago

    Uh oh - are you referring to the docs on GitHub or the actual docs site ( https://cloud.google.com/trace/docs/zipkin )?
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    by mmclean 10y ago

    Stackdriver Trace [1] is Google's external implementation of Dapper with additional analysis features. It's available for free, even for workloads not running on Google Cloud Platform. (Disclosure: I work on it) [1]: https:/