opencensus-ext-django 0.2.0

OpenCensus Django Integration

Installation

pip install opencensus-ext-django

Usage

For tracing Django requests, you will need to add the following line to the MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES section in the Django settings.py file.

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = [
    ...
    'opencensus.ext.django.middleware.OpencensusMiddleware',
]

And add this line to the INSTALLED_APPS section:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'opencensus.ext.django',
]

You can configure the sampler, exporter, propagator using the OPENCENSUS_TRACE setting in settings.py:

OPENCENSUS_TRACE = {
    'SAMPLER': 'opencensus.trace.samplers.probability.ProbabilitySampler',
    'REPORTER': 'opencensus.trace.print_exporter.PrintExporter',
    'PROPAGATOR': 'opencensus.trace.propagation.google_cloud_format.'
                  'GoogleCloudFormatPropagator',
}

You can configure the sampling rate and other parameters using the OPENCENSUS_TRACE_PARAMS setting in settings.py:

OPENCENSUS_TRACE_PARAMS = {
    'BLACKLIST_PATHS': ['/_ah/health'],
    'GCP_EXPORTER_PROJECT': None,
    'SAMPLING_RATE': 0.5,
    'SERVICE_NAME': 'my_service',
    'ZIPKIN_EXPORTER_HOST_NAME': 'localhost',
    'ZIPKIN_EXPORTER_PORT': 9411,
    'ZIPKIN_EXPORTER_PROTOCOL': 'http',
}