Go

Overview

The Go integration allows you to collect and monitor your Go application logs, traces, and custom metrics.

Setup

Metric collection

See the dedicated documentation for collecting Go custom metrics with DogStatsD.

Trace collection

See the dedicated documentation for instrumenting your Go application to send its traces to Datadog.

Log collection

Available for Agent v6.0+

See the dedicated documentation on how to setup Go log collection to forward your logs to Datadog.

Profile collection

See the dedicated documentation for enabling the Go profiler.

Data Collected

Metrics

runtime.go.num_cpu
(gauge)
CPUs detected by the runtime.
Shown as resource
runtime.go.num_goroutine
(gauge)
goroutines spawned.
Shown as invocation
runtime.go.num_cgo_call
(gauge)
CGO calls made.
Shown as invocation
runtime.go.mem_stats.alloc
(gauge)
Alloc is bytes of allocated heap objects.
Shown as byte
runtime.go.mem_stats.total_alloc
(gauge)
TotalAlloc is cumulative bytes allocated for heap objects.
Shown as byte
runtime.go.mem_stats.sys
(gauge)
Sys is the total bytes of memory obtained from the OS.
Shown as byte
runtime.go.mem_stats.lookups
(gauge)
Lookups is the number of pointer lookups performed by the
Shown as unit
runtime.go.mem_stats.mallocs
(gauge)
Mallocs is the cumulative count of heap objects allocated.
Shown as unit
runtime.go.mem_stats.frees
(gauge)
Frees is the cumulative count of heap objects freed.
Shown as unit
runtime.go.mem_stats.heap_alloc
(gauge)
HeapAlloc is bytes of allocated heap objects.
Shown as byte
runtime.go.mem_stats.heap_sys
(gauge)
HeapSys is bytes of heap memory obtained from the OS.
Shown as byte
runtime.go.mem_stats.heap_idle
(gauge)
HeapIdle is bytes in idle (unused) spans.
Shown as byte
runtime.go.mem_stats.heap_inuse
(gauge)
HeapInuse is bytes in in-use spans.
Shown as byte
runtime.go.mem_stats.heap_released
(gauge)
HeapReleased is bytes of physical memory returned to the OS.
Shown as byte
runtime.go.mem_stats.heap_objects
(gauge)
HeapObjects is the number of allocated heap objects.
Shown as unit
runtime.go.mem_stats.stack_inuse
(gauge)
StackInuse is bytes in stack spans.
Shown as byte
runtime.go.mem_stats.stack_sys
(gauge)
StackSys is bytes of stack memory obtained from the OS.
Shown as byte
runtime.go.mem_stats.m_span_inuse
(gauge)
MSpanInuse is bytes of allocated mspan structures.
Shown as byte
runtime.go.mem_stats.m_span_sys
(gauge)
MSpanSys is bytes of memory obtained from the OS for mspan structures.
Shown as byte
runtime.go.mem_stats.m_cache_inuse
(gauge)
MCacheInuse is bytes of allocated mcache structures.
Shown as byte
runtime.go.mem_stats.m_cache_sys
(gauge)
MCacheSys is bytes of memory obtained from the OS for
Shown as byte
runtime.go.mem_stats.buck_hash_sys
(gauge)
BuckHashSys is bytes of memory in profiling bucket hash tables.
Shown as byte
runtime.go.mem_stats.gc_sys
(gauge)
GCSys is bytes of memory in garbage collection metadata.
Shown as byte
runtime.go.mem_stats.other_sys
(gauge)
OtherSys is bytes of memory in miscellaneous off-heap
Shown as byte
runtime.go.mem_stats.next_gc
(gauge)
NextGC is the target heap size of the next GC cycle.
Shown as byte
runtime.go.mem_stats.last_gc
(gauge)
LastGC is the time the last garbage collection finished, as nanoseconds since 1970 (the UNIX epoch).
Shown as nanosecond
runtime.go.mem_stats.pause_total_ns
(gauge)
PauseTotalNs is the cumulative nanoseconds in GC
Shown as nanosecond
runtime.go.mem_stats.num_gc
(gauge)
NumGC is the number of completed GC cycles.
Shown as unit
runtime.go.mem_stats.num_forced_gc
(gauge)
NumForcedGC is the number of GC cycles that were forced by the application calling the GC function.
Shown as unit
runtime.go.mem_stats.gc_cpu_fraction
(gauge)
GCCPUFraction is the fraction of this program's available CPU time used by the GC since the program started.
Shown as fraction
runtime.go.gc_stats.pause_quantiles.min
(gauge)
Distribution of GC pause times: minimum values
Shown as nanosecond
runtime.go.gc_stats.pause_quantiles.25p
(gauge)
Distribution of GC pause times: 25th percentile
Shown as nanosecond
runtime.go.gc_stats.pause_quantiles.75p
(gauge)
Distribution of GC pause times: 50th percentile
Shown as nanosecond
runtime.go.gc_stats.pause_quantiles.95p
(gauge)
Distribution of GC pause times: 75th percentile
Shown as nanosecond
runtime.go.gc_stats.pause_quantiles.max
(gauge)
Distribution of GC pause times: maximum values
Shown as nanosecond

Events

The Go integration does not include any events.

Service Checks

The Go integration does not include any service checks.

Troubleshooting

Need help? Contact Datadog support.

Further Reading