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Re: AWS X-Ray – Distributed Tracing System

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Post by mmclean » Sat, Dec 03, 2016, 1:13 AM UTC

tonyhb wrote: post #100

mmclean wrote: post #98

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Nevermind, I think we found it. Fixing now.

This part: https://cloud.google.com/trace/docs/zipkin#configure_zipkin_... It doesn't show zipkin configuration :)

Yep, an issue with the anchor links that'll be updated soon. It's supposed to just link to a lower part of the page.

If you scroll down you'll see a top-level header also titled "Configure Zipkin tracers" that describes how to configure the Brave tracer. You don't really need to do anything special here - just point your Zipkin tracers at the Stackdriver Zipkin Collector rather than your existing one.

Re: AWS X-Ray – Distributed Tracing System

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Post by msane » Sat, Dec 03, 2016, 8:46 AM UTC

cg67 wrote: post #56

msane wrote: post #47

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Ive been pretty impressed by the latest AWS services. There are a ton of them though. I wouldnt expect anything different from a system designed to accomodate arbitry infrastructure. I'm considering deploying to Lightsail next, which looks like refreshing simplicity for smaller projects.

If you're considering LightSail check out Digital Ocean. They've been offering this style of service longer and offer better performance per dollar.

Thanks

Re: AWS X-Ray – Distributed Tracing System

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Post by giovannibonetti » Sun, Dec 04, 2016, 3:25 PM UTC

mmclean wrote: post #77

devbug wrote: post #16

If you're interested in distributed system tracing there's a lot going on. As a starting point, I would recommend reading Google's paper on their project "Dapper." [1] It's essentially the core of most distributed tracing systems. At least those I've encountered. There's a lot of tooling out there that take their cues from Dapper. I've recently been looking into integrating OpenZipkin[2] with our systems. I see at as…

Stackdriver Trace [1] is Google's external implementation of Dapper with additional analysis features. It's available for free, even for workloads not running on Google Cloud Platform. (Disclosure: I work on it) [1]: https://cloud.google.com/trace/

Since you work on Stackdriver, could you explain to me how did the pricing change last week? Previously I thought $8/instance/month was expensive, but it seems like now there is a cheaper basic tier. What is a good use case for the basic tier and when will I need the premium?

Re: AWS X-Ray – Distributed Tracing System

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Post by the_aLgo » Sun, Dec 11, 2016, 11:13 AM UTC

res0nat0r wrote: post #17

Is this comparable to Dynatrace?

No, X-Ray is no APM solution (yet). For example, it is missing End-User Experience Monitoring (for more information see http://www.apmdigest.com/gartners-5-dimensions-of-apm).

The similarity to Dynatrace is that - like the PurePath - X-Ray enables distributed tracing. But the approach is different: whereas Dynatrace instruments your application using an agent^, X-Ray needs you to instrument an application using the provided SDK. Moreover, X-Ray seems to be limited to applications communicating via HTTP(S).

^ in the most cases