restkin

A REST interface for publishing traces to zipkin.

API

POST /v1.0/<tenantId>/trace

Headers:

• Content-Type: application/json
• X-Auth-Token: <Auth Token>

Body:

[
    {
        "trace_id": <16-char hex string>,
        "span_id": <16-char hex string>,
        "parent_id": <16-char hex string>, //optional
        "name": <String>,
        "annotations": [
            {
                "key": <String>,
                "type": <String: string | bytes | timestamp>,
                "value": <appropriate JSON type>,
                "host": {
                    "ipv4": <String>,
                    "port": <Integer>,
                    "service_name": <String>
                }
            }
        ]
    }
]

Dependencies

• Twisted 12.1.0
• https://github.com/racker/scrivener
• https://github.com/racker/tryfer
• https://github.com/racker/node-rproxy (optional)

Running RESTkin-API

> ./bin/restkin-api --help
Usage: restkin-api [options]
Options:
  -r, --rproxy   node-rproxy will be in front of this service.
  -p, --port=    Port to listen on for RESTkin API requests [default: tcp:6956]
      --scribe=  endpoint string description for where to connect to scribe
                 [default: tcp:localhost:1463]
      --version  Display versions and exit.
      --help     Display this help and exit.

> ./bin/restkin-api

Running RESTkin-Scribe

> ./bin/restkin-scribe --help
Usage: restkin-scribe [options]
Options:
  -p, --port=         Port to listen on for the RESTKin Scribe Collector
                      [default: tcp:0]
      --restkin-url=  HTTP(S) URL for posting RESTkin traces. [default:
                      http://localhost:6956/v1.0/trace]
      --version       Display versions and exit.
      --help          Display this help and exit.

> ./bin/restkin-scribe --restkin-url=http://localhost:6956/v1.0/trace

License

Copyright (C) 2012 Rackspace Hosting, Inc

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.