The Network, The Kingmaker
Distributed Tracing and Zipkin

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Apache Cassandra based solutions

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Distributed Tracing

Zipkin 2

Zipkin & Cassandra

Scaling Data & People

MicroServices, BASE, and lambda architectures

the missing piece for many is tracing and profiling difficult to reproduce problems

Zipkin

an implementation of Google's Dapper paper

Zipkin Install

git clone git@github.com:openzipkin/zipkin.git
mvn install -DskipTests
java -jar ./zipkin-server/target/zipkin-server-*exec.jar

( or `docker run -d -p 9411:9411 openzipkin/zipkin` )

search traces

search traces

analyze one trace

real-time* in browser

platform call graph

client        |        server

CS -->                            
                            --> SR

                            <-- SS
CR <--                            

simple http call

[ Brave – https://github.com/openzipkin/brave ]

simple http call

continuing a trace… (in-process)

http call passing through headers

continuing the trace… (x-process)

one way tracing

custom tags

Tracing in C*

Tracing in C*

Tracing in C*

Zipkin in C*

• visualization
• detailed timings
• hierarchy and asynchronisity
• zero tracing overhead

Cassandra-3.4

Cassandra-3.11.0

Download Brave-Cassandra Tracing

 git clone git@github.com:openzipkin/brave-cassandra.git

 mvn install

 cp cassandra/target/brave-instrumentation-cassandra-*-all.jar \
     $CASSANDRA_HOME/lib/

JVM_OPTS="-Dcassandra.custom_tracing_class=brave.cassandra.Tracing"   cassandra

Zipkin across C*

Zipkin across C*

Zipkin into C*

Zipkin into C*

http call passing through headers

c* call using custom payload

c* call using custom payload

bin/cassandra
    -Dcassandra.custom_tracing_class=..ZipkinTracing
    -Dcassandra.custom_query_handler_class=..CustomPayloadMirroringQueryHandler

Zipkin Self Tracing

analyze one trace

Thanks

• Zipkin                                                    – github.com/openzipkin/zipkin
• Brave (zipkin java instrumentation)    – github.com/openzipkin/openzipkin-brave
• Zipkin/Brave Cassandra library          – github.com/openzipkin/brave-cassandra
• Original Zipkin Cassandra library       – github.com/thelastpickle/cassandra-zipkin-tracing
• This presentation                                 – http://bit.ly/2hbES8u

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