Quarkus - Using OpenTracing

This guide explains how your Quarkus application can utilize OpenTracing to provide distributed tracing for interactive web applications.

Prerequisites

To complete this guide, you need:

• less than 15 minutes

• an IDE

• JDK 1.8+ installed with JAVA_HOME configured appropriately

• Apache Maven 3.6.2+

• Docker

Architecture

In this guide, we create a straightforward REST application to demonstrate distributed tracing.

Solution

We recommend that you follow the instructions in the next sections and create the application step by step. However, you can skip right to the completed example.

Clone the Git repository: git clone [https://github.com/quarkusio/quarkus-quickstarts.git](https://github.com/quarkusio/quarkus-quickstarts.git), or download an archive.

The solution is located in the opentracing-quickstart directory.

Creating the Maven project

First, we need a new project. Create a new project with the following command:

mvn io.quarkus:quarkus-maven-plugin:1.7.6.Final:create \
    -DprojectGroupId=org.acme \
    -DprojectArtifactId=opentracing-quickstart \
    -DclassName="org.acme.opentracing.TracedResource" \
    -Dpath="/hello" \
    -Dextensions="quarkus-smallrye-opentracing"
cd opentracing-quickstart

This command generates the Maven project with a REST endpoint and imports the smallrye-opentracing extension, which includes the OpenTracing support and the default Jaeger tracer.

If you already have your Quarkus project configured, you can add the smallrye-opentracing extension to your project by running the following command in your project base directory:

./mvnw quarkus:add-extension -Dextensions="smallrye-opentracing"

This will add the following to your pom.xml:

<dependency>
    <groupId>io.quarkus</groupId>
    <artifactId>quarkus-smallrye-opentracing</artifactId>
</dependency>

Examine the JAX-RS resource

Open the src/main/java/org/acme/opentracing/TracedResource.java file and see the following content:

package org.acme.opentracing;
import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
import org.jboss.logging.Logger;
@Path("/hello")
public class TracedResource {
    private static final Logger LOG = Logger.getLogger(TracedResource.class);
    @GET
    @Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
    public String hello() {
        LOG.info("hello");
        return "hello";
    }
}

Notice that there is no tracing specific code included in the application. By default, requests sent to this endpoint will be traced without any code changes being required. It is also possible to enhance the tracing information. For more information on this, please see the MicroProfile OpenTracing specification.

Create the configuration

There are two ways to configure the Jaeger tracer within the application.

The first approach is by providing the properties within the src/main/resources/application.properties file:

quarkus.jaeger.service-name=myservice (1)
quarkus.jaeger.sampler-type=const (2)
quarkus.jaeger.sampler-param=1 (3)
quarkus.log.console.format=%d{HH:mm:ss} %-5p traceId=%X{traceId}, spanId=%X{spanId}, sampled=%X{sampled} [%c{2.}] (%t) %s%e%n (4)

The second approach is to supply the properties as environment variables. These can be specified as jvm.args as shown in the following section.

Run the application

The first step is to start the tracing system to collect and display the captured traces:

docker run -p 5775:5775/udp -p 6831:6831/udp -p 6832:6832/udp -p 5778:5778 -p 16686:16686 -p 14268:14268 jaegertracing/all-in-one:latest

Now we are ready to run our application. If using application.properties to configure the tracer:

./mvnw compile quarkus:dev

or if configuring the tracer via environment variables:

./mvnw compile quarkus:dev -Djvm.args="-DJAEGER_SERVICE_NAME=myservice -DJAEGER_SAMPLER_TYPE=const -DJAEGER_SAMPLER_PARAM=1"

Once both the application and tracing system are started, you can make a request to the provided endpoint:

$ curl http://localhost:8080/hello
hello

When the first request has been submitted, the Jaeger tracer within the app will be initialized:

2019-10-16 09:35:23,464 INFO  [io.jae.Configuration] (executor-thread-1) Initialized tracer=JaegerTracer(version=Java-0.34.0, serviceName=myservice, reporter=RemoteReporter(sender=UdpSender(), closeEnqueueTimeout=1000), sampler=ConstSampler(decision=true, tags={sampler.type=const, sampler.param=true}), tags={hostname=localhost.localdomain, jaeger.version=Java-0.34.0, ip=127.0.0.1}, zipkinSharedRpcSpan=false, expandExceptionLogs=false, useTraceId128Bit=false)
13:20:11 INFO  traceId=1336b2b0a76a96a3, spanId=1336b2b0a76a96a3, sampled=true [or.ac.qu.TracedResource] (executor-thread-63) hello

Then visit the Jaeger UI to see the tracing information.

Hit CTRL+C to stop the application.

Additional instrumentation

The OpenTracing API Contributions project offers additional instrumentation that can be used to add tracing to a large variety of technologies/components.

The instrumentation documented in this section has been tested with Quarkus and works in both standard and native mode.

JDBC

The JDBC instrumentation will add a span for each JDBC queries done by your application, to enable it, add the following dependency to your pom.xml:

<dependency>
    <groupId>io.opentracing.contrib</groupId>
    <artifactId>opentracing-jdbc</artifactId>
</dependency>

As it uses a dedicated JDBC driver, you must configure your datasource and Hibernate to use it.

quarkus.datasource.db-kind=postgresql
# add ':tracing' to your database URL
quarkus.datasource.jdbc.url=jdbc:tracing:postgresql://localhost:5432/mydatabase
# use the 'TracingDriver' instead of the one for your database
quarkus.datasource.jdbc.driver=io.opentracing.contrib.jdbc.TracingDriver
# configure Hibernate dialect
quarkus.hibernate-orm.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect

Jaeger Configuration Reference