HBASE-6449 added support for tracing requests through HBase, using the open source tracing library, HTrace. Setting up tracing is quite simple, however it currently requires some very minor changes to your client code (it would not be very difficult to remove this requirement).
The tracing system works by collecting information in structs called 'Spans'.
It is up to you to choose how you want to receive this information
by implementing the SpanReceiver
interface,
which defines one method:
public void receiveSpan(Span span);
This method serves as a callback whenever a span is completed. HTrace allows you to use as many SpanReceivers as you want so you can easily send trace information to multiple destinations.
Configure what SpanReceivers you'd like to us
by putting a comma separated list of the
fully-qualified class name of classes implementing
SpanReceiver
in hbase-site.xml
property: hbase.trace.spanreceiver.classes
.
HTrace includes a LocalFileSpanReceiver
that writes all span information to local files in a JSON-based format.
The LocalFileSpanReceiver
looks in hbase-site.xml
for a hbase.local-file-span-receiver.path
property with a value describing the name of the file
to which nodes should write their span information.
<property> <name>hbase.trace.spanreceiver.classes</name> <value>org.htrace.impl.LocalFileSpanReceiver</value> </property> <property> <name>hbase.local-file-span-receiver.path</name> <value>/var/log/hbase/htrace.out</value> </property>
HTrace also provides ZipkinSpanReceiver
which converts spans to
Zipkin
span format and send them to Zipkin server.
In order to use this span receiver,
you need to install the jar of htrace-zipkin to your HBase's classpath
on all of the nodes in your cluster.
htrace-zipkin
is published to the maven central repository.
You could get the latest version from there or just build it locally and then
copy it out to all nodes, change your config to use zipkin receiver, distribute
the new configuration and then (rolling) restart.
Here is the example of manual setup procedure.
$ git clone https://github.com/cloudera/htrace $ cd htrace/htrace-zipkin $ mvn compile assembly:single $ cp target/htrace-zipkin-*-jar-with-dependencies.jar $HBASE_HOME/lib/ # copy jar to all nodes...
The ZipkinSpanReceiver
looks in hbase-site.xml
for a hbase.zipkin.collector-hostname
and hbase.zipkin.collector-port
property with a value describing the Zipkin collector server
to which span information are sent.
<property> <name>hbase.trace.spanreceiver.classes</name> <value>org.htrace.impl.ZipkinSpanReceiver</value> </property> <property> <name>hbase.zipkin.collector-hostname</name> <value>localhost</value> </property> <property> <name>hbase.zipkin.collector-port</name> <value>9410</value> </property>
If you do not want to use the included span receivers,
you are encouraged to write your own receiver
(take a look at LocalFileSpanReceiver
for an example).
If you think others would benefit from your receiver,
file a JIRA or send a pull request to
HTrace.