第 8 章 Tracing requests using Jaeger
Using Jaeger with OpenShift Serverless allows you to enable distributed tracing for your serverless applications on OpenShift Container Platform.
Distributed tracing records the path of a request through the various services that make up an application.
It is used to tie information about different units of work together, to understand a whole chain of events in a distributed transaction. The units of work might be executed in different processes or hosts.
Developers can visualize call flows in large architectures with distributed tracing. which is useful for understanding serialization, parallelism, and sources of latency.
For more information about Jaeger, see Jaeger architecture and Installing Jaeger.
8.1. Configuring Jaeger for use with OpenShift Serverless
Prerequisites
To configure Jaeger for use with OpenShift Serverless, you will need:
- Cluster administrator permissions on an OpenShift Container Platform cluster.
- You have installed the OpenShift Serverless Operator and Knative Serving.
- You have installed the Jaeger Operator.
Procedure
Create and apply a Jaeger custom resource YAML file that contains the following sample YAML:
Jaeger custom resource YAML
apiVersion: jaegertracing.io/v1 kind: Jaeger metadata: name: jaeger namespace: default
Enable tracing for Knative Serving, by editing the
KnativeServing
resource and adding a YAML configuration for tracing.Tracing YAML example
apiVersion: operator.knative.dev/v1alpha1 kind: KnativeServing metadata: name: knative-serving namespace: knative-serving spec: config: tracing: sample-rate: "0.1" 1 backend: zipkin 2 zipkin-endpoint: http://jaeger-collector.default.svc.cluster.local:9411/api/v2/spans 3 debug: "false" 4
- 1
- The
sample-rate
defines sampling probability. Usingsample-rate: "0.1"
means that 1 in 10 traces will be sampled. - 2
backend
must be set tozipkin
.- 3
- The
zipkin-endpoint
must point to yourjaeger-collector
service endpoint. To get this endpoint, substitute the namespace where the Jaeger custom resource is applied. - 4
- Debugging should be set to
false
. Enabling debug mode by settingdebug: "true"
allows all spans to be sent to the server, bypassing sampling.
Verification
Access the Jaeger web console to see tracing data. You can access the Jaeger web console by using the jaeger
route.
Get the hostname of the
jaeger
route:$ oc get route jaeger
Example output
NAME HOST/PORT PATH SERVICES PORT TERMINATION WILDCARD jaeger jaeger-default.apps.example.com jaeger-query <all> reencrypt None
- Open the endpoint address in your browser to view the console.