Traces

Capture nested traces during code execution in a vendor agnostic way.

Features

• Zero-overhead if tracing is disabled and minimal overhead if enabled.
• Small opinionated interface with standardised semantics, consistent with the W3C Trace Context Specification.

Usage

Please see the project documentation.

Contributing

We welcome contributions to this project.

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

See Also

• traces-backend-open_telemetry — A backend for submitting traces to OpenTelemetry, including ScoutAPM.
• traces-backend-datadog — A backend for submitting traces to Datadog.
• metrics — A metrics interface which follows a similar pattern.

License

Released under the MIT license.

Copyright, 2021, by Samuel G. D. Williams.

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