lightstep

lightstep tracer

As with other tracers, the lightstep tracer is configured by setting -opentracing="lightstep OPTIONS". Valid options are:

• component-name - set component name instead of skipper
• token - Access token for the lightstep satellites (REQUIRED)
• protocol - sets UseGRPC option to true if set to "grpc", defaults to "grpc"
• grpc-max-msg-size - maximum size for gRPC messages
• min-period - minimum time to wait before sending spans to the satellites, string with value parseable by time.ParseDuration
• max-period - maximum time to wait before sending spans to the satellites, string with value parseable by time.ParseDuration
• max-buffered-spans - maximum number of buffered spans before sending to the satellites
• tag - key-value pairs (key=value) separated by commas (,) to set as tags in every span
• collector - hostname (+port) - (e.g. lightstep-satellites.example.org:4443) to send the spans to, i.e. your lightstep satellites
• plaintext (boolean) - force plaintext communication with satellites
• cmd-line - override what is reported as command line
• log-events - if this option is present, it will log events from the tracer
• propagators - set propagators to use (i.e. format of http headers used for tracing). This can be used to pick up traces from / to applications which only understand the B3 format (e.g. grafana where the jaeger instrumentation can be switched to use the B3 format). This can be combined, e.g. lightstep,b3 should be used to pick up both formats (attempted in that order).
  • lightstep or ls - use the standard lightstep headers (default)
  • b3 - use the B3 propagation format