sender-sqs

sender-sqs

This component leverages zipkin-reporter-java interfaces to send spans to Amazon SQS for collection and processing. SQS is an alternative to kafka that is fully managed in the AWS cloud.

Configuration

A minimal configuration of this sender would be:

sender = SQSSender.create("my-queue");

Additionally, CredentialsProvider, EndpointConfiguration and region can all be customized as needed.

sender = SQSSender.builder()
    .queueName("my-queue")
    .region("us-west-1")
    .credentialsProvider(new AWSStaticCredentialsProvider(new AnonymousAWSCredentials()))
    .endpointConfiguration(new AwsClientBuilder.EndpointConfiguration("http://localhost:8080/", "us-east-1"))
    .build();

Requirements

The credentials that your service has requires the following permissions in order to function:

sqs:DescribeStream for health checking

sqs:PutRecord for placing spans on the queue

Message encoding

The message's binary data includes a list of spans. Supported encodings are the same as the http POST /spans body.

Encoding defaults to json, but can be overridden to use PROTO3 instead.

Unless the message is ascii, it is Base64 encoded before being sent. For example, plain json is sent as is. Thrift or json messages that include unicode characters are encoded using Base64.

Related work

collector-sqs integrates with zipkin-server to pull spans off of an SQS queue instead of http or kafka.