Trace with logs

How to trace logs in distributed system?

Overview

We will introduce a way to trace logs in distributed system without tracing service like jaeger.

Quick start

1.Install

$ go get github.com/rookie-ninja/rk-boot/v2
$ go get github.com/rookie-ninja/rk-echo

1.Create ServerA with 8080

bootA.yaml

---
echo:
  - name: greeter
    port: 8080
    enabled: true
    middleware:
      meta:
        enabled: true
      logging:
        enabled: true
      trace:
        enabled: true

serverA.go

package main

import (
  "context"
  "github.com/labstack/echo/v4"
  "github.com/rookie-ninja/rk-boot/v2"
  "github.com/rookie-ninja/rk-echo/boot"
  "github.com/rookie-ninja/rk-echo/middleware/context"
  "net/http"
)

func main() {
  // Create a new boot instance.
  boot := rkboot.NewBoot(rkboot.WithBootConfigPath("serverA.yaml", nil))

  // Register handler
  echoEntry := rkecho.GetEchoEntry("greeter")
  echoEntry.Echo.GET("/v1/greeter", func(ctx echo.Context) error {
    client := http.DefaultClient

    // Construct request point to Server B
    req, _ := http.NewRequestWithContext(context.Background(), http.MethodGet, "http://localhost:8081/v1/greeter", nil)

    // Inject parent trace info into request header
    rkechoctx.InjectSpanToHttpRequest(ctx, req)

    // Send request to Server B
    client.Do(req)

    return ctx.JSON(http.StatusOK, "Hello!")
  })

  // Bootstrap
  boot.Bootstrap(context.TODO())

  boot.WaitForShutdownSig(context.TODO())
}

2.Create ServerB with 8081

bootB.yaml

---
echo:
  - name: greeter
    port: 8081
    enabled: true
    middleware:
      meta:
        enabled: true
      logging:
        enabled: true
      trace:
        enabled: true

serverB.go

package main

import (
  "context"
  "github.com/labstack/echo/v4"
  "github.com/rookie-ninja/rk-boot/v2"
  "github.com/rookie-ninja/rk-echo/boot"
  "net/http"
)

func main() {
  // Create a new boot instance.
  boot := rkboot.NewBoot(rkboot.WithBootConfigPath("serverB.yaml", nil))

  // Register handler
  echoEntry := rkecho.GetEchoEntry("greeter")
  echoEntry.Echo.GET("/v1/greeter", func(ctx echo.Context) error {
    return ctx.JSON(http.StatusOK, "Hello!")
  })

  // Bootstrap
  boot.Bootstrap(context.TODO())

  boot.WaitForShutdownSig(context.TODO())
}

3.Start ServerA & ServerB

$ go run serverA.go
$ go run serverB.go

4.Send request to ServerA

$ curl localhost:8080/v1/greeter

5.Validate logs

There will be uniq traceId and different requestId & eventId.

ServerA

------------------------------------------------------------------------
...
ids={"eventId":"0928ec71-01ea-4cc3-9c33-61711eff1689","requestId":"0928ec71-01ea-4cc3-9c33-61711eff1689","traceId":"0dd657c8522cfadc3cfc98e37db9b527"}
...

ServerB

------------------------------------------------------------------------
...
ids={"eventId":"3adcaabc-14d7-40b0-a8d2-8f8cdb58b311","requestId":"3adcaabc-14d7-40b0-a8d2-8f8cdb58b311","traceId":"0dd657c8522cfadc3cfc98e37db9b527"}
...

Concept

There will be three types of ID generated in logs.

EventId

Generated while logging middleware was enabled.

---
echo:
  - name: greeter
    port: 8080
    enabled: true
    middleware:
      logging:
        enabled: true

------------------------------------------------------------------------
...
ids={"eventId":"cd617f0c-2d93-45e1-bef0-95c89972530d"}
...

RequestId

Generated while logging and meta middleware enabled. RequestId and eventId will the same.

---
echo:
  - name: greeter
    port: 8080
    enabled: true
    middleware:
      meta:
        enabled: true
      logging:
        enabled: true

------------------------------------------------------------------------
...
ids={"eventId":"8226ba9b-424e-4e19-ba63-d37ca69028b3","requestId":"8226ba9b-424e-4e19-ba63-d37ca69028b3"}
...

  rkechoctx.SetHeaderToClient(ctx, rkmid.HeaderRequestId, "overridden-request-id")

------------------------------------------------------------------------
...
ids={"eventId":"overridden-request-id","requestId":"overridden-request-id"}
...

TraceId

Generate while trace middleware was enabled.

---
echo:
  - name: greeter
    port: 8080
    enabled: true
    middleware:
      meta:
        enabled: true
      logging:
        enabled: true
      trace:
        enabled: true

------------------------------------------------------------------------
...
ids={"eventId":"dd19cf9a-c7be-486c-b29d-7af777a78ebe","requestId":"dd19cf9a-c7be-486c-b29d-7af777a78ebe","traceId":"316a7b475ff500a76bfcd6147036951c"}
...