zipkin-transport-http

This is a module that sends Zipkin trace data to a configurable HTTP endpoint.

Usage

npm install zipkin-transport-http --save

const {
  Tracer,
  BatchRecorder,
  jsonEncoder: {JSON_V2} 
} = require('zipkin');
const {HttpLogger} = require('zipkin-transport-http');
const noop = require('noop-logger');
 
const recorder = new BatchRecorder({
  logger: new HttpLogger({
    endpoint: 'http://localhost:9411/api/v2/spans', // Required
    jsonEncoder: JSON_V2, // JSON encoder to use. Optional (defaults to JSON_V1)
    httpInterval: 1000, // How often to sync spans. Optional (defaults to 1000)
    headers: {'Authorization': 'secret'}, // Custom HTTP headers. Optional
    timeout: 1000, // Timeout for HTTP Post. Optional (defaults to 0)
    maxPayloadSize: 0, // Max payload size for zipkin span. Optional (defaults to 0)
    agent: new http.Agent({keepAlive: true}), // Agent used for network related options. Optional (defaults to null)
    log: noop, // Logger to use. Optional (defaults to console)
    fetchImplementation: require('node-fetch') // Pluggable fetch implementation (defaults to global fetch or fallsback to node fetch)
  })
});
 
const tracer = new Tracer({
  recorder,
  ctxImpl, // this would typically be a CLSContext or ExplicitContext
  localServiceName: 'service-a' // name of this application
});

Options

Required

• endpoint - HTTP endpoint which spans will be sent.

Optional

• agent - HTTP(S) agent to use for any networking related options.
  • Takes an http/https NodeJS Agent.
  • Defaults to null

// Example using a self-signed CA, along with cert/key for mTLS.
new HttpLogger({
  endpoint: 'http://localhost:9411/api/v2/spans',
  agent: new http.Agent({
    ca: fs.readFileSync('pathToCaCert'),
    cert: fs.readFileSync('pathToCert'),
    key: fs.readFileSync('pathToPrivateKey')
  })
})

• headers - Any additional HTTP headers to be sent with span.
  • Will set 'Content-Type': 'application/json' at a minimum
• httpInterval - How often to sync spans.
  • Defaults to 1000
• jsonEncoder - JSON encoder to use when sending spans.
  • Defaults to JSON_V1
• maxPayloadSize - Max payload size for zipkin span.
  • Will drop any spans exceeding this threshold.
  • Defaults to 0 (Disabled)
• log - Internal logger used within the transport.
  • Defaults to console
• timeout - Timeout for HTTP Post when sending spans.
  • Defaults to 0 (Disabled)
• fetchImplementation - The fetch API to be used for sending spans.

  • Defaults to default global fetch or fallsback to node-fetch.

  • A different fetch implementation can be plugged to fulfill different requirements, for example one can use fetch-retry to allow retries and exponential back-off:

    const {HttpLogger} = require('zipkin-transport-http');
    const fetch = require('node-fetch');
    const fetchRetryBuilder = require('fetch-retry');
     
    const fetchRetryOptions = {
      // retry on any network error, or > 408 or 5xx status codes
      retryOn: (attempt, error, response) => error !== null
        || response == null
        || response.status >= 408,
      retryDelay: tryIndex => 1000 ** tryIndex // with an exponentially growing backoff
    };
     
    const fetchImplementation = fetchRetryBuilder(fetch, fetchRetryOptions);
     
    const httpLogger = new HttpLogger({
      endpoint: `http://localhost:9411/api/v1/spans`,
      httpInterval: 1,
      fetchImplementation
    });