Reference documentation and code samples for the Cloud Trace API class Google::Cloud::Trace::Middleware.
Trace Middleware
A Rack middleware that manages trace context and captures a trace of the request. Specifically, it:
- Reads the trace context from the request headers, if present. Otherwise, generates a new trace context.
- Makes a sampling decision if one is not already specified.
- Records a span measuring the entire handling of the request, annotated with a set of standard request data.
- Makes the trace context available so downstream middlewares and the app can add further spans to the trace.
- Sends the completed trace to the Stackdriver service.
Installing
To use this middleware, simply install it in your middleware stack. Here is an example Sinatra application that includes the Trace middleware:
```ruby
Simple sinatra application
require "sinatra" require "google/cloud/trace"
use Google::Cloud::Trace::Middleware
get "/" do "Hello World!" end ```
Here is an example config.ru
file for a web application that uses
the standard Rack configuration mechanism.
```ruby
config.ru for simple Rack application
require "google/cloud/trace" use Google::Cloud::Trace::Middleware
run MyApp ```
If your application uses Ruby On Rails, you may also use the provided Railtie for close integration with Rails and ActiveRecord.
Custom measurements
By default, this middleware creates traces that measure just the http request handling as a whole. If you want to provide more detailed measurements of smaller processes, use the classes provided in this library. Below is a Sinatra example to get you started.
```ruby
Simple sinatra application
require "sinatra" require "google/cloud/trace"
use Google::Cloud::Trace::Middleware
get "/" do Google::Cloud::Trace.in_span "Sleeping on the job!" do sleep rand end "Hello World!" end ```
Error handling
An error encountered during the reporting of traces by the middleware
can be handled using a Proc set in the on_error
configuration. (See
configure.) The Proc must take the error object
as the single argument.
```ruby
Configure error handling
require "sinatra" require "google/cloud/trace" require "google/cloud/error_reporting"
Google::Cloud::Trace.configure do |config| config.on_error = lambda do |error| Google::Cloud::ErrorReporting.report error end end
use Google::Cloud::Trace::Middleware
get "/" do Google::Cloud::Trace.in_span "Sleeping on the job!" do sleep rand end "Hello World!" end ```
Sampling and blacklisting
A sampler makes the decision whether to record a trace for each request (if the decision was not made by the context, e.g. by providing a request header). By default, this sampler is the default TimeSampler, which enforces a maximum QPS per process, and blacklists a small number of request paths such as health checks sent by Google App Engine. You may adjust this behavior by providing an alternate sampler. See TimeSampler.
Inherits
- Object
Methods
#call
def call(env) -> Rack::Response
Implementation of the trace middleware. Creates a trace for this request, populates it with a root span for the entire request, and ensures it is reported back to Stackdriver.
- env (Hash) — Rack environment hash
- (Rack::Response) — The response from downstream Rack app
#initialize
def initialize(app, service: nil, **kwargs) -> Middleware
Create a new Middleware for traces
- app (Rack Application) — Rack application
- service (Google::Cloud::Trace::Service, AsyncReporter) (defaults to: nil) — The service object to update traces. Optional if running on GCE.
- kwargs (Hash) — Hash of configuration settings. Used for backward API compatibility. See the Instrumentation Guide and Configuration Guide for the prefered way to set configuration parameters.
- (Middleware) — a new instance of Middleware
Constants
AGENT_NAME
value: "ruby #VERSION".freeze
The name of this trace agent as reported to the Stackdriver backend.