foxx-tracer-reporter-console

A console reporter for foxx-tracer-collector.

Installation

This package is already available in the collector by default. See the collector docs for how to enable it.

Configuration

This reporter has a single configuration parameter, viz, the console stream to which it should pipe its output. There are 3 options - log, debug and error. If the reporter is installed under the namespace console (which is the default), then the manifest.json of the collector would have a section like:

{
    "configuration": {
        "reporters-console": {
            "type": "json",
            "required": true,
            "default": {
                "stream": "debug"
            },
            "description": "Settings for the console reporter."
        }
    }
}

You can change the stream parameter to one of the other 2 available values if needed.

Writing Your Own Reporter

This package can be used as a template for developing your own reporters.

For an example of a reporter built for the Datadog Agent, see foxx-tracer-reporter-datadog.

Also see the foxx-tracer docs for a closer look at the core tracing library that does makes it all work. Custom reporters may need to use its exports for certain features.