This topic describes how to report the data of a Node.js application to Tracing Analysis.

Prerequisites

Jaeger dependencies are added to the package of the Node.js project. 

"dependencies": {
    "jaeger-client": "^3.12.0"
  }

  1. Log on to the Tracing Analysis console. In the left-side navigation pane, click Cluster Configurations.
  2. On the Cluster Configurations tab, click the Access point information tab. Then, turn on Show Token for the Cluster Information parameter.
  3. Set the Client parameter to the client that you want to use to collect trace data.
  4. In the Related Information column of the table in the lower part, click the copy icon next to the endpoint that you want to use.

Tracing Analysis Endpoint Section

Note: If you deploy your application in an Alibaba Cloud production environment, select a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoint. Otherwise, select a public endpoint. Generally, use the endpoint of v2 for Zipkin. Use the endpoint of v1 only if you know Zipkin well.

Background information

The following figure shows how to report data without using the Jaeger agent.

Report Tracing Data Directly

The following figure shows how to report data by using the Jaeger agent.

Report Tracing Data By Jaeger Agent

Procedure

  1. Set parameters for initialization.
    Notice Replace <endpoint> with the corresponding endpoint in the corresponding region that is displayed on the Overview page. For more information about how to obtain access point information, see Obtain access point information. 
    const initTracer = require("jaeger-client").initTracer;

const config = {
    serviceName: 'node-service',
    sampler: {
        type: "const",
        param: 1
    },
    reporter: {
        collectorEndpoint: "<endpoint>"
    },
};
  2. Create a Tracer object. 
    const tracer = initTracer(config);
  3. Create a span. 
    const span = tracer.startSpan("say-hello");

// Optional. Set one or more tags.
span.setTag("tagKey-01", "tagValue-01");

// Optional. Set one or more logs.
span.log({event: "timestamp", value: Date.now()});

// Finish the span.
span.finish();
  4. Log on to the Tracing Analysis console and view the trace.

Complete sample code based on Express

const express = require("express");
const initTracer = require("jaeger-client").initTracer;
const app = express();

const config = {
    serviceName: 'node-service',
    sampler: {
        type: "const",
        param: 1
    },
    reporter: {
        collectorEndpoint: "<endpoint>"
    },
};
const tracer = initTracer(config);

app.all('*', function (req, res, next) {
    req.span = tracer.startSpan("say-hello");
    next();
});

app.get("/api", function (req, res) {
    const span = req.span;
    span.log({event: "timestamp", value: Date.now()});
    req.span.finish();
    res.send({code: 200, msg: "success"});
});

app.listen(3000, '127.0.0.1', function () {
    console.log('start');
});