module Hasura.Tracing (module Tracing) where import Hasura.Tracing.Class as Tracing import Hasura.Tracing.Context as Tracing import Hasura.Tracing.Monad as Tracing import Hasura.Tracing.Reporter as Tracing import Hasura.Tracing.Sampling as Tracing import Hasura.Tracing.TraceId as Tracing import Hasura.Tracing.Utils as Tracing {- Note [Tracing] \## Usage The Tracing library allows us to trace arbitrary pieces of our code, providing that the current monad implements 'MonadTrace'. newTrace "request" do userInfo <- newSpan "authentication" retrieveUserInfo parsedQuery <- newSpan "parsing" $ parseQuery q result <- newSpan "execution" $ runQuery parsedQuery userInfo pure result \## Trace and span Each _trace_ is distinct, and is composed of one or more _spans_. Spans are organized as a tree: the root span covers the entire trace, and each sub span keeps track of its parent. We report each span individually, and to each of them we associate a 'TraceContext', that contains: - a trace id, common to all the spans of that trace - a unique span id, generated randomly - the span id of the parent span, if any - whether that trace was sampled (see "Sampling"). All of this can be retrieved for the current span with 'currentContext'. Starting a new trace masks the previous one; in the following example, "span2" is associated to "trace2" and "span1" is associated to "trace1"; the two trees are distinct: newTrace "trace1" $ newSpan "span1" $ newTrace "trace2" $ newSpan "span2" Lastly, a span that is started outside of a root trace is, for now, silently ignored, as it has no trace id to attach to. This is a design decision we may revisit. \## Metadata Metadata can be attached to the current span with 'attachMetadata', as a list of pair of text key and text values. \## Reporters 'TraceT' is the de-facto implementation of 'MonadTrace'; but, in practice, it only does half the job: once a span finishes, 'TraceT' delegates the job of actually reporting / exporting all relevant information to a 'Reporter'. Said reporter must be provided to 'runTraceT', and is a wrapper around a function in IO that processes the span. In practice, 'TraceT' is only a reader that keeps track of the reporter, the default sampling policy, and the current trace. \## Sampling To run 'TraceT', you must also provide a 'SamplingPolicy': an IO action that, when evaluated, will decide whether an arbitrary trace should be reporter or not. This decision is only made once per trace: every span within a trace will use the same result: they're either all reporter, or none of them are. When starting a trace, the default sampling policy can be overriden. You can for instance run 'TraceT' with an action that, by default, only reports one out of every ten traces, but use 'newTraceWithPolicy sampleAlways' when sending critical requests to your authentication service. Note that sampling and reporting are distinct: using 'sampleAlways' simply guarantees that the 'Reporter' you provided will be called. -}