OpenTracing
Instrument NGINX with OpenTracing-compliant requests for a range of distributed tracing services, such as Zipkin, Jaeger and Datadog. Note that the opentracing module provides the framework for recording traces; you will also need to install a service-specific tracing module. This module (“tracer”) pushes traces to the collector and analyser provided by that service.
Installation Instructions
Install the OpenTracing module.
For Amazon Linux, CentOS, Oracle Linux, and RHEL:
$ yum install nginx-plus-module-opentracing
Note: the OpenTracing module cannot be installed on CentOS 6, Oracle Linux 6, and RHEL 6.
For Debian and Ubuntu:
$ apt-get install nginx-plus-module-opentracing
For SLES:
$ zypper install nginx-plus-module-opentracing
Note: the OpenTracing module cannot be installed on SLES 12.
For Alpine:
$ apk add nginx-plus-module-opentracing
Put the
load_moduledirective in the top‑level (“main”) context of NGINX Plus configuration file, nginx.conf:load_module modules/ngx_http_opentracing_module.so;
Perform additional configuration as required by the module. You will also need to install a tracer (“portable binary plugin”) for your selected service.
Reload NGINX Plus to enable the module:
$ nginx -t && nginx -s reload