census-instrumentation/opencensus-goArchived
Opencensus Go
OpenCensus-go is an observability instrumentation library designed to capture and export telemetry data from distributed systems. It functions as a framework for application performance monitoring and distributed request tracing, allowing developers to track system health, latency, and the progression of requests across service boundaries.
The project distinguishes itself through a modular architecture that decouples data collection from storage. By utilizing a pluggable exporter interface, it enables the transmission of metrics and trace data to a variety of external monitoring and analysis backends. It also employs a measure-view aggregation model to record performance data points with minimal runtime overhead, ensuring that system visibility does not compromise application performance.
The library provides comprehensive instrumentation capabilities, including the ability to record performance metrics for web requests and remote procedure calls. It supports contextual metadata propagation and tagging, which allows for the consistent tracking of request-specific attributes across process boundaries. Additionally, the framework facilitates runtime profiling and internal health monitoring, providing visibility into resource usage and system behavior.
Features
- Application Performance Monitoring - Provides a framework for tracking system health and latency by recording performance data and request spans within distributed environments.
- Distributed Request Tracing - Tracks the progression of requests across multiple services to visualize complex system operations.
- Custom Span Recorders - Records request progression across services by capturing hierarchical timing segments as spans.
- Pluggable Storage Drivers - Decouples data collection from storage using modular drivers to transmit telemetry to various backends.
