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  149. <h1 id="opentracing"><a class="header" href="#opentracing">OpenTracing</a></h1>
  150. <h2 id="background"><a class="header" href="#background">Background</a></h2>
  151. <p>OpenTracing is a semi-standard being adopted by a number of distributed
  152. tracing platforms. It is a common api for facilitating vendor-agnostic
  153. tracing instrumentation. That is, we can use the OpenTracing api and
  154. select one of a number of tracer implementations to do the heavy lifting
  155. in the background. Our current selected implementation is Jaeger.</p>
  156. <p>OpenTracing is a tool which gives an insight into the causal
  157. relationship of work done in and between servers. The servers each track
  158. events and report them to a centralised server - in Synapse's case:
  159. Jaeger. The basic unit used to represent events is the span. The span
  160. roughly represents a single piece of work that was done and the time at
  161. which it occurred. A span can have child spans, meaning that the work of
  162. the child had to be completed for the parent span to complete, or it can
  163. have follow-on spans which represent work that is undertaken as a result
  164. of the parent but is not depended on by the parent to in order to
  165. finish.</p>
  166. <p>Since this is undertaken in a distributed environment a request to
  167. another server, such as an RPC or a simple GET, can be considered a span
  168. (a unit or work) for the local server. This causal link is what
  169. OpenTracing aims to capture and visualise. In order to do this metadata
  170. about the local server's span, i.e the 'span context', needs to be
  171. included with the request to the remote.</p>
  172. <p>It is up to the remote server to decide what it does with the spans it
  173. creates. This is called the sampling policy and it can be configured
  174. through Jaeger's settings.</p>
  175. <p>For OpenTracing concepts see
  176. <a href="https://opentracing.io/docs/overview/what-is-tracing/">https://opentracing.io/docs/overview/what-is-tracing/</a>.</p>
  177. <p>For more information about Jaeger's implementation see
  178. <a href="https://www.jaegertracing.io/docs/">https://www.jaegertracing.io/docs/</a></p>
  179. <h2 id="setting-up-opentracing"><a class="header" href="#setting-up-opentracing">Setting up OpenTracing</a></h2>
  180. <p>To receive OpenTracing spans, start up a Jaeger server. This can be done
  181. using docker like so:</p>
  182. <pre><code class="language-sh">docker run -d --name jaeger \
  183. -p 6831:6831/udp \
  184. -p 6832:6832/udp \
  185. -p 5778:5778 \
  186. -p 16686:16686 \
  187. -p 14268:14268 \
  188. jaegertracing/all-in-one:1
  189. </code></pre>
  190. <p>Latest documentation is probably at
  191. https://www.jaegertracing.io/docs/latest/getting-started.</p>
  192. <h2 id="enable-opentracing-in-synapse"><a class="header" href="#enable-opentracing-in-synapse">Enable OpenTracing in Synapse</a></h2>
  193. <p>OpenTracing is not enabled by default. It must be enabled in the
  194. homeserver config by uncommenting the config options under <code>opentracing</code>
  195. as shown in the <a href="./sample_config.yaml">sample config</a>. For example:</p>
  196. <pre><code class="language-yaml">opentracing:
  197. enabled: true
  198. homeserver_whitelist:
  199. - &quot;mytrustedhomeserver.org&quot;
  200. - &quot;*.myotherhomeservers.com&quot;
  201. </code></pre>
  202. <h2 id="homeserver-whitelisting"><a class="header" href="#homeserver-whitelisting">Homeserver whitelisting</a></h2>
  203. <p>The homeserver whitelist is configured using regular expressions. A list
  204. of regular expressions can be given and their union will be compared
  205. when propagating any spans contexts to another homeserver.</p>
  206. <p>Though it's mostly safe to send and receive span contexts to and from
  207. untrusted users since span contexts are usually opaque ids it can lead
  208. to two problems, namely:</p>
  209. <ul>
  210. <li>If the span context is marked as sampled by the sending homeserver
  211. the receiver will sample it. Therefore two homeservers with wildly
  212. different sampling policies could incur higher sampling counts than
  213. intended.</li>
  214. <li>Sending servers can attach arbitrary data to spans, known as
  215. 'baggage'. For safety this has been disabled in Synapse but that
  216. doesn't prevent another server sending you baggage which will be
  217. logged to OpenTracing's logs.</li>
  218. </ul>
  219. <h2 id="configuring-jaeger"><a class="header" href="#configuring-jaeger">Configuring Jaeger</a></h2>
  220. <p>Sampling strategies can be set as in this document:
  221. <a href="https://www.jaegertracing.io/docs/latest/sampling/">https://www.jaegertracing.io/docs/latest/sampling/</a>.</p>
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