# Traffic Trace
This policy enables tracing logging to a third party tracing solution.
Tracing is supported over HTTP, HTTP2, and gRPC protocols in a Mesh
. You must explicitly specify the protocol for each service and data plane proxy you want to enable tracing for.
You must also:
- Add a tracing backend. You specify a tracing backend as a
Mesh
resource property. - Add a TrafficTrace resource. You pass the backend to the
TrafficTrace
resource.
Kuma currently supports the following backends:
zipkin
- Jaeger (opens new window) as the Zipkin collector. The Zipkin examples specify Jaeger, but you can modify for a Zipkin-only deployment.
datadog
While most commonly we want all the traces to be sent to the same tracing backend, we can optionally create multiple tracing backends in a Mesh
resource and store traces for different paths of our service traffic in different backends by leveraging Kuma tags. This is especially useful when we want traces to never leave a world region, or a cloud, for example.
# Add Jaeger backend
apiVersion: kuma.io/v1alpha1
kind: Mesh
metadata:
name: default
spec:
tracing:
defaultBackend: jaeger-collector
backends:
- name: jaeger-collector
type: zipkin
sampling: 100.0
conf:
url: http://jaeger-collector.kuma-tracing:9411/api/v2/spans
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Apply the configuration with kubectl apply -f [..]
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# Add Datadog backend
# Prerequisites
- Set up the Datadog (opens new window) agent.
- Set up APM (opens new window).
- For Kubernetes, see the datadog documentation for setting up Kubernetes (opens new window).
If Datadog is running within Kubernetes, you can expose the APM agent port to Kuma via Kubernetes service.
# Set up in Kuma
The defaultBackend
property specifies the tracing backend to use if it's not explicitly specified in the TrafficTrace
resource.
# Add TrafficTrace resource
Next, create TrafficTrace
resources that specify how to collect traces, and which backend to store them in.
You can also add tags to apply the TrafficTrace
resource only a subset of data plane proxies. TrafficTrace
is a Dataplane policy, so you can specify any of the selectors
tags.
Services should also be instrumented to preserve the trace chain across requests made across different services. You can instrument with a language library of your choice, or you can manually pass the following headers:
x-request-id
x-b3-traceid
x-b3-parentspanid
x-b3-spanid
x-b3-sampled
x-b3-flags
# Configure Grafana to visualize the logs
To visualise your traces you need to have a Grafana up and running. You can install Grafana by following the information of the official page (opens new window) or use the one installed with Traffic metrics.
With Grafana installed you can configure a new datasource with url:http://jaeger-query.kuma-tracing/
so Grafana will be able to retrieve the traces from Jaeger.
