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Chapter 12. Distributed tracing

12.1. Enabling distributed tracing
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The client offers distributed tracing based on the Jaeger implementation of the OpenTracing standard. Use the following steps to enable tracing in your application:

  1. Install the tracing dependencies.

    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

    $ sudo yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
$ sudo yum install python2-pip
$ pip install --user --upgrade setuptools
$ pip install --user opentracing jaeger-client
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    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

    $ sudo dnf install python3-pip
$ pip3 install --user opentracing jaeger-client
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  2. Register the global tracer in your program.

    Example: Global tracer configuration

    from proton.tracing import init_tracer

tracer = init_tracer("<service-name>")
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For more information about Jaeger configuration, see Jaeger Sampling.

When testing or debugging, you may want to force Jaeger to trace a particular operation. See the Jaeger Python client documentation for more information.

To view the traces your application captures, use the Jaeger Getting Started to run the Jaeger infrastructure and console.

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