openzipkin-tracer-python

The OpenZipkin OpenTracing (Open)Library for (Open)Python :D

Installation

apt-get install python-dev
python setup.py install
#pip install zipkin-python-opentracing

Getting started

Please see the example programs for examples of how to use this library. In particular:

• Trivial Example shows how to use the library on a single host.

• Non-trivial example is way more resource intensive multi-threaded example (takes ~5'):.

• Context in Headers shows how to pass a TraceContext through HTTP headers.

• Interoperability extends on the HTTP headers example by starting a node express server that receives a request, proxies it back to Python and then forwards the response.

Or if your python code is already instrumented for OpenTracing, you can simply switch to OpenZipkin's implementation with:

import opentracing
import zipkin_ot

if __name__ == "__main__":
  opentracing.tracer = zipkin_ot.Tracer(
    service_name='your_microservice_name')

  with opentracing.tracer.start_span('TestSpan') as span:
    span.log_event('test message', payload={'life': 42})

  opentracing.tracer.flush()

Acknowledgments

Based (heavily) on and lots of credits to lightstep and py_zipkin.

This library is the OpenZipkin binding for OpenTracing. See the OpenTracing Python API for additional detail.

Copyright (c) 2016 The OpenTracing Authors.