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Basic example showing distributed tracing across Java applications

This is an example app where two Java services collaborate on a request.

Notably, these services send data to Zipkin, a distributed tracing system. Zipkin allows you to see how long the operation took, as well how much time was spent in each service.

Here's an example of what it looks like:

zipkin screen shot

Implementation Overview

This example has two services: frontend and backend. Both are instrumented to send tracing data to a third service Zipkin. Brave performs this function.

Running the example

To set up the demo, you need to start Frontend, Backend and Zipkin. You can do this using Java commands or Docker.

Once the services start, open http://localhost:8081/

Afterward, you can view traces that went through the backend via http://127.0.0.1:9411/zipkin?serviceName=backend

  • This is a locally run zipkin service which keeps traces in memory

Tips

There are some interesting details that apply to all examples:

  • If you pass the header user_name Brave will automatically propagate it to the backend!
    • curl -s localhost:8081 -H'user_name: JC'
  • The below Logback pattern adds trace and span identifiers into log output
    • %d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%thread] [%X{userName}] [%X{traceId}/%X{spanId}] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n

Example projects

Here are the example projects you can try:

Starting the services with Docker

Docker Compose is the easiest way to start.

Just run docker compose up.

Armeria starts by default. To use a different version of the project, set the VERSION variable.

Ex. VERSION=webmvc25-jetty docker compose up

Starting the services from source

When not using Docker, you'll need to start services according to the frameworks used.

First, start Zipkin. This stores and queries traces reported by the example services.

Starting Zipkin with Java:

curl -sSL https://zipkin.io/quickstart.sh | bash -s
java -jar zipkin.jar

Java

In a separate tab or window, start each of brave.example.Frontend and brave.example.Backend.

Ex.

$ cd armeria
$ mvn compile exec:java -Dexec.mainClass=brave.example.Backend
$ mvn compile exec:java -Dexec.mainClass=brave.example.Frontend

Servlet

In a separate tab or window, start a Jetty container for "backend" and "frontend".

Ex.

$ cd webmvc4-jetty
$ mvn jetty:run -Pfrontend
$ mvn jetty:run -Pbackend