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.

Note: Since NGINX Plus Release 29, the OpenTelemetry module is available that incorporates the features of the OpenTracing module.

Installation Instructions

  1. 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

  2. Put the load_module directive in the top‑level (“main”) context of NGINX Plus configuration file, nginx.conf:

    load_module modules/ngx_http_opentracing_module.so;

  3. Perform additional configuration as required by the module. You will also need to install a tracer (“portable binary plugin”) for your selected service.

  4. Reload NGINX Plus to enable the module:

    $ nginx -t && nginx -s reload

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