Datadog APM client that implements an OpenTracing Tracer.

Initialization

To start using the Datadog Tracer with the OpenTracing API, you should first initialize the tracer with a proper Configuration object:

import (
	// ddtrace namespace is suggested
	ddtrace "github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-go/opentracing"
	opentracing "github.com/opentracing/opentracing-go"
)

func main() {
	// create a Tracer configuration
	config := ddtrace.NewConfiguration()
	config.ServiceName = "api-intake"
	config.AgentHostname = "ddagent.consul.local"

	// initialize a Tracer and ensure a graceful shutdown
	// using the `closer.Close()`
	tracer, closer, err := ddtrace.NewTracer(config)
	if err != nil {
		// handle the configuration error
	}
	defer closer.Close()

	// set the Datadog tracer as a GlobalTracer
	opentracing.SetGlobalTracer(tracer)
	startWebServer()
}

Function NewTracer(config) returns an io.Closer instance that can be used to gracefully shutdown the tracer. It's recommended to always call the closer.Close(), otherwise internal buffers are not flushed and you may lose some traces.

Usage

See Opentracing documentation for some usage patterns. Legacy documentation is available in GoDoc format.

Contributing Quick Start

Requirements:

• Go 1.7 or later
• Docker

Run the tests

The best way to run the tests is using the CircleCI CLI. Simply run circleci build in the repository root. Note that you might have to increase the resources dedicated to Docker to around 4GB.

Further Reading

Automatically traced libraries and frameworks: https://godoc.org/github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-go/tracer#pkg-subdirectories Sample code: https://godoc.org/github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-go/tracer#pkg-examples