OpenCensus

• Introduction
• Accepted formats
• Configuration
  • Format
  • Example
• Application level exporters
• References

Introduction

The OpenCensus receiver allows the OpenCensus Service to capture traces and metrics from applications that implement the OpenCensus Protocol

Accepted formats

By default, the OpenCensus Service listens on TCP port 55678 and receives traffic from:

• HTTP/2 clients with Protobuf messages
• HTTP/1 clients that use the grpc-gateway

Configuration

An OpenCensus receiver can be turned on by using the configuration file sub-section “opencensus” under “receivers”

Format

receivers:
  opencensus:
    address: <host:port>

Example

receivers:
  opencensus:
    address: "localhost:55678"

and when OpenCensus Service is re-run, it should produce such output

Agent

2019/02/12 18:57:25 Running OpenCensus Trace and Metrics receivers as a gRPC service at "localhost:55678"
2019/02/12 18:57:25 Running zPages at ":55679"

Collector

{"level":"info","ts":1551744415.5136526,"caller":"opencensus/receiver.go:62","msg":"OpenCensus receiver is running.","port":55678}

Application level exporters

To use OpenCensus in your applications and directly export the collected traces, stats and metrics to the OpenCensus Service, please look at these respective language guides:

References