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+# Exporting Metrics and Traces with OpenCensus, Zipkin, and Prometheus
+
+This tutorial provides a minimum example to verify that metrics and traces
+can be exported to OpenCensus from Go tools.
+
+## Setting up oragent
+
+1. Ensure you have [docker](https://www.docker.com/get-started) and [docker-compose](https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/).
+2. Clone [oragent](https://github.com/orijtech/oragent).
+3. In the oragent directory, start the services:
+```bash
+docker-compose up
+```
+If everything goes well, you should see output resembling the following:
+```
+Starting oragent_zipkin_1 ... done
+Starting oragent_oragent_1 ... done
+Starting oragent_prometheus_1 ... done
+...
+```
+* You can check the status of the OpenCensus agent using zPages at http://localhost:55679/debug/tracez.
+* You can now access the Prometheus UI at http://localhost:9445.
+* You can now access the Zipkin UI at http://localhost:9444.
+4. To shut down oragent, hit Ctrl+C in the terminal.
+5. You can also start oragent in detached mode by running `docker-compose up -d`. To stop oragent while detached, run `docker-compose down`.
+
+## Exporting Metrics and Traces
+1. Clone the [tools](https://golang.org/x/tools) subrepository.
+1. Inside `internal`, create a file named `main.go` with the following contents:
+```go
+package main
+
+import (
+ "context"
+ "fmt"
+ "math/rand"
+ "net/http"
+ "time"
+
+ "golang.org/x/tools/internal/event"
+ "golang.org/x/tools/internal/event/export"
+ "golang.org/x/tools/internal/event/export/metric"
+ "golang.org/x/tools/internal/event/export/ocagent"
+)
+
+type testExporter struct {
+ metrics metric.Exporter
+ ocagent *ocagent.Exporter
+}
+
+func (e *testExporter) ProcessEvent(ctx context.Context, ev event.Event) (context.Context, event.Event) {
+ ctx, ev = export.Tag(ctx, ev)
+ ctx, ev = export.ContextSpan(ctx, ev)
+ ctx, ev = e.metrics.ProcessEvent(ctx, ev)
+ ctx, ev = e.ocagent.ProcessEvent(ctx, ev)
+ return ctx, ev
+}
+
+func main() {
+ exporter := &testExporter{}
+
+ exporter.ocagent = ocagent.Connect(&ocagent.Config{
+ Start: time.Now(),
+ Address: "http://127.0.0.1:55678",
+ Service: "go-tools-test",
+ Rate: 5 * time.Second,
+ Client: &http.Client{},
+ })
+ event.SetExporter(exporter)
+
+ ctx := context.TODO()
+ mLatency := event.NewFloat64Key("latency", "the latency in milliseconds")
+ distribution := metric.HistogramFloat64Data{
+ Info: &metric.HistogramFloat64{
+ Name: "latencyDistribution",
+ Description: "the various latencies",
+ Buckets: []float64{0, 10, 50, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1000, 1400, 2000, 5000, 10000, 15000},
+ },
+ }
+
+ distribution.Info.Record(&exporter.metrics, mLatency)
+
+ for {
+ sleep := randomSleep()
+ _, end := event.StartSpan(ctx, "main.randomSleep()")
+ time.Sleep(time.Duration(sleep) * time.Millisecond)
+ end()
+ event.Record(ctx, mLatency.Of(float64(sleep)))
+
+ fmt.Println("Latency: ", float64(sleep))
+ }
+}
+
+func randomSleep() int64 {
+ var max int64
+ switch modulus := time.Now().Unix() % 5; modulus {
+ case 0:
+ max = 17001
+ case 1:
+ max = 8007
+ case 2:
+ max = 917
+ case 3:
+ max = 87
+ case 4:
+ max = 1173
+ }
+ return rand.Int63n(max)
+}
+
+```
+3. Run the new file from within the tools repository:
+```bash
+go run internal/main.go
+```
+4. After about 5 seconds, OpenCensus should start receiving your new metrics, which you can see at http://localhost:8844/metrics. This page will look similar to the following:
+```
+# HELP promdemo_latencyDistribution the various latencies
+# TYPE promdemo_latencyDistribution histogram
+promdemo_latencyDistribution_bucket{vendor="otc",le="0"} 0
+promdemo_latencyDistribution_bucket{vendor="otc",le="10"} 2
+promdemo_latencyDistribution_bucket{vendor="otc",le="50"} 9
+promdemo_latencyDistribution_bucket{vendor="otc",le="100"} 22
+promdemo_latencyDistribution_bucket{vendor="otc",le="200"} 35
+promdemo_latencyDistribution_bucket{vendor="otc",le="400"} 49
+promdemo_latencyDistribution_bucket{vendor="otc",le="800"} 63
+promdemo_latencyDistribution_bucket{vendor="otc",le="1000"} 78
+promdemo_latencyDistribution_bucket{vendor="otc",le="1400"} 93
+promdemo_latencyDistribution_bucket{vendor="otc",le="2000"} 108
+promdemo_latencyDistribution_bucket{vendor="otc",le="5000"} 123
+promdemo_latencyDistribution_bucket{vendor="otc",le="10000"} 138
+promdemo_latencyDistribution_bucket{vendor="otc",le="15000"} 153
+promdemo_latencyDistribution_bucket{vendor="otc",le="+Inf"} 15
+promdemo_latencyDistribution_sum{vendor="otc"} 1641
+promdemo_latencyDistribution_count{vendor="otc"} 15
+```
+5. After a few more seconds, Prometheus should start displaying your new metrics. You can view the distribution at http://localhost:9445/graph?g0.range_input=5m&g0.stacked=1&g0.expr=rate(oragent_latencyDistribution_bucket%5B5m%5D)&g0.tab=0.
+
+6. Zipkin should also start displaying traces. You can view them at http://localhost:9444/zipkin/?limit=10&lookback=300000&serviceName=go-tools-test.
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