Tracers
A tracer type represents a destination for Redpanda Connect to send tracing events to such as Jaeger.
When a tracer is configured all messages will be allocated a root span during ingestion that represents their journey through a Redpanda Connect pipeline. Many Redpanda Connect processors create spans, and so tracing is a great way to analyse the pathways of individual messages as they progress through a Redpanda Connect instance.
Some inputs, such as http_server
and http_client
, are capable of extracting a root span from the source of the message (HTTP headers). This is
a work in progress and should eventually expand so that all inputs have a way of doing so.
Other inputs, such as kafka
can be configured to extract a root span by using the extract_tracing_map
field.
A tracer config section looks like this:
tracer:
jaeger:
agent_address: localhost:6831
sampler_type: const
sampler_param: 1
Although the configuration spec of this component is stable the format of spans, tags and logs created by Redpanda Connect is subject to change as it is tuned for improvement. |