Distributed Tracing in Spring Boot Microservices using OpenCensus Agent(with Jaeger or Zipkin)

Demo App Architecture

Jaeger / Zipkin Setup

• A docker-compose.yml file is provided that will set up the Jaeger and Zipkin.
• Both the tools can be run together, and application can send traces to both of them.
• Access Jaeger UI on - http://localhost:16686/search
• Acces Zipkin UI on - http://localhost:9411/zipkin/

Open Census Agent Setup

• The docker-compose.yml also contains setup for OpenCensus Agent
• The configuration for OpenCensus Agent is located at - /resources/docker/ocagent-config.yaml
• It is configured to recieve OpenCensus Traces from application, and export traces to Zipkin and Jaeger tools.

Running the application

Pre-requisite

• Docker
• Java 11
• Gradle

First Time Setup

Do this if you are starting the application for first time

rm -rf ~/data/opencensus-pgres-13

mkdir -p ~/data/opencensus-pgres-13

Run the application

• Build

  ./gradlew clean build --console=plain

• Run

  docker-compose up -d --build

Initial Data Creation

Connect to PostGres (username: pgadmin, password: pgadmin#123), and run the sql scripts in resources/dummy-data-scripts folder to create the dummy data for this application.

• Customer-DummyData.sql - Run on customerdb
• Orders-DummyData.sql - Run on orderdb
• Products-DummyData.sql - Run on productdb

PostGres Admin

To connect to postgres from your host machine, you can install pgAdmin

docker run --name postgres-admin -p 5000:80 -e "PGADMIN_DEFAULT_EMAIL=admin@dba.com" -e "PGADMIN_DEFAULT_PASSWORD=admin" -d dpage/pgadmin4

Connect to pgAdmin at http://localhost:5000, and login using the admin credentials provided in docker run command.

SAMPLE REST END POINTS

• Get all customers http://localhost/api/v1/bff/customers?pageNum=0&pageSize=10

• Get All Orders for a customer http://localhost/api/v1/bff/customer/5c0e7fe0-f062-11ea-9298-0242c0a88003/orders

• Encrypt properties for curl http://localhost:<config-server-port>/encrypt -d dummyPropValue

• Get Config for Customer Service curl http://localhost:<config-server-port>/product-service/default

PENDING WORK

• Enable SQL Tracing