Java OpenTracing Instrumentation

OpenTracing support is based on a deprecated specification. If you want to instrument your code with an open spec, use OpenTelemetry instead. Try the beta support for processing data from OpenTelemetry instrumentation in Datadog Tracing Libraries.

Datadog integrates with the OpenTracing API.

Setup

For Maven, add this to pom.xml:

<!-- OpenTracing API -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>io.opentracing</groupId>
    <artifactId>opentracing-api</artifactId>
    <version>0.32.0</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
    <groupId>io.opentracing</groupId>
    <artifactId>opentracing-util</artifactId>
    <version>0.32.0</version>
</dependency>

<!-- Datadog API -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.datadoghq</groupId>
    <artifactId>dd-trace-api</artifactId>
    <version>${dd-trace-java.version}</version>
</dependency>

<!-- Datadog OpenTracing bridge (only needed if you do not use dd-java-agent for autoinstrumentation) -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.datadoghq</groupId>
    <artifactId>dd-trace-ot</artifactId>
    <version>${dd-trace-java.version}</version>
</dependency>

For Gradle, add:

compile group: 'io.opentracing', name: 'opentracing-api', version: "0.32.0"
compile group: 'io.opentracing', name: 'opentracing-util', version: "0.32.0"
compile group: 'com.datadoghq', name: 'dd-trace-api', version: "${dd-trace-java.version}"
// Datadog OpenTracing bridge (only needed if you do not use dd-java-agent for autoinstrumentation)
compile group: 'com.datadoghq', name: 'dd-trace-ot', version: "${dd-trace-java.version}"

Configure your application using environment variables or system properties as discussed in the configuration section.

If you’re not using autoinstrumentation, you must register a configured tracer with GlobalTracer. For this, call GlobalTracer.register(DDTracer.builder().build()) early on in your application startup (for example, main method).

import datadog.opentracing.DDTracer;
import io.opentracing.Tracer;
import io.opentracing.util.GlobalTracer;

public class Application {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        DDTracer tracer = DDTracer.builder().build();
        GlobalTracer.register(tracer);
        // register the same tracer with the Datadog API
        datadog.trace.api.GlobalTracer.registerIfAbsent(tracer);
    }
}

Aside from environment variables and system properties, there are additional configuration options as part of the DDTracer.Builder interface. Consult the Javadoc for a full listing.

Note: Never add dd-java-agent to your classpath. Doing so can cause unexpected behavior.

Asynchronous traces

An asynchronous trace is when a span is started in one thread and finished in another. To instrument this behavior, a new scope must be used in each thread the span is active.

// Step 1: start the Scope/Span on the work submission thread
final Tracer tracer = GlobalTracer.get();
final Span span = tracer.buildSpan("ServicehandlerSpan").start();

try (final Scope scope = tracer.activateSpan(span)) {
    // submission thread impl...

    submitAsyncTask(new Runnable() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            // Step 2: reactivate the Span in the worker thread
            try (final Scope scope = tracer.activateSpan(span)) {
              // worker thread impl
            } finally {
              // Step 3: Finish Span when work is complete
              span.finish();
            }
       }
    });
}

Inject and extract context for distributed tracing

Create a distributed trace using manual instrumentation with OpenTracing:

// Step 1: Inject the Datadog headers in the client code
Span span = tracer.buildSpan("httpClientSpan").start();
try (Scope scope = tracer.activate(span)) {
    HttpRequest request = /* your code here */;

    tracer.inject(span.context(),
                  Format.Builtin.HTTP_HEADERS,
                  new MyHttpHeadersInjectAdapter(request));

    // http request impl...
} finally {
    span.finish();
}

public static class MyHttpHeadersInjectAdapter implements TextMap {
    private final HttpRequest httpRequest;

    public HttpHeadersInjectAdapter(final HttpRequest httpRequest) {
        this.httpRequest = httpRequest;
    }

    @Override
    public void put(final String key, final String value) {
        httpRequest.addHeader(key, value);
    }

    @Override
    public Iterator<Map.Entry<String, String>> iterator() {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("This class should be used only with tracer#inject()");
    }
}

// Step 2: Extract the Datadog headers in the server code
HttpRequest request = /* your code here */;

final SpanContext extractedContext =
  GlobalTracer.get().extract(Format.Builtin.HTTP_HEADERS,
                             new MyHttpRequestExtractAdapter(request));

// is a child of http client span in step 1
Span span = tracer.buildSpan("httpServerSpan").asChildOf(extractedContext).start();
try (Scope scope = tracer.activateSpan(span)) {
    // http server impl...
} finally {
    span.finish();
}

public class MyHttpRequestExtractAdapter implements TextMap {
    private final HttpRequest request;

    public HttpRequestExtractAdapter(final HttpRequest request) {
        this.request = request;
    }

    @Override
    public Iterator<Map.Entry<String, String>> iterator() {
        return request.headers().iterator();
    }

    @Override
    public void put(final String key, final String value) {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("This class should be used only with Tracer.extract()!");
    }
}

Notice the above examples only use the OpenTracing classes. Check the OpenTracing API for more details and information.