django-py-zipkin 0.2.6

Usage

Set the settings, if not set it’ll use defaults:

ZIPKIN_SERVICE_NAME: unknown

The name to use when identifying the service being traced.

ZIPKIN_TRANSPORT_HANDLER: django_py_zipkin.transport.zipkin_transport

Transport to use to submit traces to Zipkin. The default one submits in the background via Celery.

ZIPKIN_ADD_LOGGING_ANNOTATION: True

Whether to add a ‘logging_end’ annotation when py_zipkin finishes logging spans

ZIPKIN_TRACING_ENABLED: False

Whether or not to enable tracing, requires explicit enabling.

ZIPKIN_TRACING_SAMPLING: 1.00

The sampling threshold

ZIPKIN_BLACKLISTED_PATHS: []

List of regular expressions to ignore from tracing.

Add the middleware

MIDDLEWARE = [
    ...
    'django_py_zipkin.middleware.ZipkinMiddleware',
    ...
]

Or instrument your code with the context manager:

with trace('span-name', request.zipkin_tracer) as context
    traced_value = do_something_that_takes_time()
    context.update({
        'some.key': traced_value,
    })