OpenCensus

• Introduction
• Use cases
• Configuration
  • Format
  • Example
  • Notes
• References

Introduction

The OpenCensus exporter allows you to export traces and metrics from the OpenCensus Service to a service of your choice.

Use cases

• Your backend could be OpenCensus Protocol compliant.
• You might want to daisy chain various Collectors and then export once (for example to preserve bandwidth or connections or create a mesh network to batch data and piggyback due to connection limits with the outside world/APM backend).

Configuration

In Service’s YAML configuration file, under section “exporters” and sub-section “opencensus”, configure these fields:

Format

exporters:
  opencensus:
    endpoint: "<host:port>"
    compression: "<compression e.g. gzip>"

Example

exporters:
  opencensus:
    endpoint: "localhost:44788"

Notes

References