OpenTracing JAX-RS Instrumentation

OpenTracing instrumentation for JAX-RS standard. It supports tracing of server and client requests.

Instrumentation by default adds a set of standard HTTP tags and as an operation name it uses a string defined in @Path annotation. Custom tags or operation name can be added via span decorators. This instrumentation also supports tracing of (de)serialization of response and requests bodies.

MicroProfile-OpenTracing

This implementation is compatible with MicroProfile-OpenTracing (MP-OT). It can be used as a building block of MicroProfile compatible application server. Note that application servers have to add a few things which are not provided by this project: CDI interceptor, automatically register tracing filters into client... SmallRye-OpenTracing uses this library to provide a vendor neutral implementation of MP-OT.

Tracing server requests

Tracing server requests requires two components: JAX-RS dynamic feature and servlet filter. Span is started in JAX-RS filter and finished in servlet filter.

Auto discovery

Tracing can be automatically enabled by adding the following dependency on classpath. This mechanism requires a tracer to be registered in GlobalTracer. This is typically done in ServletContextListener. Note that JAX-RS clients are not automatically instrumented. Client tracing feature has to be explicitly registered to all client instances.

<dependency>
  <groupId>io.opentracing.contrib</groupId>
  <artifactId>opentracing-jaxrs2-discovery</artifactId>
</dependency>

Custom configuration

For custom configuration use the following dependency:

<dependency>
  <groupId>io.opentracing.contrib</groupId>
  <artifactId>opentracing-jaxrs2</artifactId>
</dependency>

The Custom configuration can be achieved by adding ServerTracingDynamicFeature to Application.singletons or by wrapping the feature with a class annotated with @Provider. This approach does not require adding all classes to singletons set.

Dynamic feature registration via custom provider:

@Provider
public class TracingInitializer implements DynamicFeature {

  private final ServerTracingDynamicFeature serverTracingDynamicFeature =
      new ServerTracingDynamicFeature.Builder(GlobalTracer.get())
          .withOperationNameProvider(ClassNameOperationName.newBuilder())
      .build();

  @Override
  public void configure(ResourceInfo resourceInfo, FeatureContext context) {
    serverTracingDynamicFeature.configure(resourceInfo, context);
  }
}

Dynamic feature registration via singletons:

public class JaxRsApp extends javax.ws.rs.core.Application {

  @Override
  public Set<Object> getSingletons() {
    DynamicFeature tracing = new ServerTracingDynamicFeature.Builder(tracer)
        .withDecorators(decorators)
        .withSerializationDecorators(serializationDecorators)
        .build();

    return Collections.singleton(tracing);
  }
}

Filter registration:

@WebListener
public class OpenTracingContextInitializer implements javax.servlet.ServletContextListener {

  @Override
  public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent servletContextEvent) {
    io.opentracing.tracer tracer = new ....
    GlobalTracer.register(tracer); // or preferably use CDI
    
    ServletContext servletContext = servletContextEvent.getServletContext();
    Dynamic filterRegistration = servletContext
        .addFilter("tracingFilter", new SpanFinishingFilter());
    filterRegistration.setAsyncSupported(true);
    filterRegistration.addMappingForUrlPatterns(EnumSet.of(DispatcherType.REQUEST, DispatcherType.ASYNC), false, "*");
  }
}

An example of traced REST endpoint:

@GET
@Path("/hello")
@Traced(operationName = "helloRenamed") // optional, see javadoc
public Response hello() { // optional to get server span context

  // this span will be ChildOf of span representing server request processing
  Span childSpan = tracer.buildSpan("businessOperation")
          .start())

   // business logic
  childSpan.finish();

  return Response.status(Response.Status.OK).build();
}

Tracing client requests

Client client = ClientBuilder.newBuilder()
  .reqister(ClientTracingFeature.class)
  .build();

Response response = client.target("http://localhost/endpoint")
  .request()
  .property(TracingProperties.CHILD_OF, parentSpanContext) // optional, by default new parent is inferred from span source
  .property(TracingProperties.TRACING_DISABLED, false) // optional, by default everything is traced
  .get();

Async

Async requests are executed in a different thread than when the client has been invoked, therefore spans representing client requests are not connected to appropriate parent. To fix this JAX-RS client has to use OpenTracing-aware ExecutorService.

Jersey

@ClientAsyncExecutor
public class DelegateExecutorServiceProvider implements ExecutorServiceProvider {

  private final ExecutorService executorService;

  public DelegateExecutorServiceProvider(ExecutorService executorService) {
    this.executorService = executorService;
  }

  @Override
  public ExecutorService getExecutorService() {
    return executorService;
  }

  @Override
  public void dispose(ExecutorService executorService) {
  }
}

Client client = ClientBuilder.newBuilder()
    .register(new DelegateExecutorServiceProvider(
        new TracedExecutorService(Executors.newFixedThreadPool(8), tracer)))
    ...

RestEasy

Client client = new ResteasyClientBuilder()
    .executorService(new TracedExecutorService(Executors.newFixedThreadPool(8), tracer))
    ...

Development

./mvnw clean install

Release

Follow instructions in RELEASE

License

Apache 2.0 License.

opentracing-contrib / java-jaxrs