1# Exporting Metrics and Traces with OpenCensus, Zipkin, and Prometheus
2
3This tutorial provides a minimum example to verify that metrics and traces
4can be exported to OpenCensus from Go tools.
5
6## Setting up oragent
7
81. Ensure you have [docker](https://www.docker.com/get-started) and [docker-compose](https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/).
92. Clone [oragent](https://github.com/orijtech/oragent).
103. In the oragent directory, start the services:
11```bash
12docker-compose up
13```
14If everything goes well, you should see output resembling the following:
15```
16Starting oragent_zipkin_1 ... done
17Starting oragent_oragent_1 ... done
18Starting oragent_prometheus_1 ... done
19...
20```
21* You can check the status of the OpenCensus agent using zPages at http://localhost:55679/debug/tracez.
22* You can now access the Prometheus UI at http://localhost:9445.
23* You can now access the Zipkin UI at http://localhost:9444.
244. To shut down oragent, hit Ctrl+C in the terminal.
255. You can also start oragent in detached mode by running `docker-compose up -d`. To stop oragent while detached, run `docker-compose down`.
26
27## Exporting Metrics and Traces
281. Clone the [tools](https://golang.org/x/tools) subrepository.
291. Inside `internal`, create a file named `main.go` with the following contents:
30```go
31package main
32
33import (
34	"context"
35	"fmt"
36	"math/rand"
37	"net/http"
38	"time"
39
40	"golang.org/x/tools/internal/event"
41	"golang.org/x/tools/internal/event/export"
42	"golang.org/x/tools/internal/event/export/metric"
43	"golang.org/x/tools/internal/event/export/ocagent"
44)
45
46type testExporter struct {
47	metrics metric.Exporter
48	ocagent *ocagent.Exporter
49}
50
51func (e *testExporter) ProcessEvent(ctx context.Context, ev event.Event) (context.Context, event.Event) {
52	ctx, ev = export.Tag(ctx, ev)
53	ctx, ev = export.ContextSpan(ctx, ev)
54	ctx, ev = e.metrics.ProcessEvent(ctx, ev)
55	ctx, ev = e.ocagent.ProcessEvent(ctx, ev)
56	return ctx, ev
57}
58
59func main() {
60	exporter := &testExporter{}
61
62	exporter.ocagent = ocagent.Connect(&ocagent.Config{
63		Start:   time.Now(),
64		Address: "http://127.0.0.1:55678",
65		Service: "go-tools-test",
66		Rate:    5 * time.Second,
67		Client:  &http.Client{},
68	})
69	event.SetExporter(exporter)
70
71	ctx := context.TODO()
72	mLatency := event.NewFloat64Key("latency", "the latency in milliseconds")
73	distribution := metric.HistogramFloat64Data{
74		Info: &metric.HistogramFloat64{
75			Name:        "latencyDistribution",
76			Description: "the various latencies",
77			Buckets:     []float64{0, 10, 50, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1000, 1400, 2000, 5000, 10000, 15000},
78		},
79	}
80
81	distribution.Info.Record(&exporter.metrics, mLatency)
82
83	for {
84		sleep := randomSleep()
85		_, end := event.StartSpan(ctx, "main.randomSleep()")
86		time.Sleep(time.Duration(sleep) * time.Millisecond)
87		end()
88		event.Record(ctx, mLatency.Of(float64(sleep)))
89
90		fmt.Println("Latency: ", float64(sleep))
91	}
92}
93
94func randomSleep() int64 {
95	var max int64
96	switch modulus := time.Now().Unix() % 5; modulus {
97	case 0:
98		max = 17001
99	case 1:
100		max = 8007
101	case 2:
102		max = 917
103	case 3:
104		max = 87
105	case 4:
106		max = 1173
107	}
108	return rand.Int63n(max)
109}
110
111```
1123. Run the new file from within the tools repository:
113```bash
114go run internal/main.go
115```
1164. After about 5 seconds, OpenCensus should start receiving your new metrics, which you can see at http://localhost:8844/metrics. This page will look similar to the following:
117```
118# HELP promdemo_latencyDistribution the various latencies
119# TYPE promdemo_latencyDistribution histogram
120promdemo_latencyDistribution_bucket{vendor="otc",le="0"} 0
121promdemo_latencyDistribution_bucket{vendor="otc",le="10"} 2
122promdemo_latencyDistribution_bucket{vendor="otc",le="50"} 9
123promdemo_latencyDistribution_bucket{vendor="otc",le="100"} 22
124promdemo_latencyDistribution_bucket{vendor="otc",le="200"} 35
125promdemo_latencyDistribution_bucket{vendor="otc",le="400"} 49
126promdemo_latencyDistribution_bucket{vendor="otc",le="800"} 63
127promdemo_latencyDistribution_bucket{vendor="otc",le="1000"} 78
128promdemo_latencyDistribution_bucket{vendor="otc",le="1400"} 93
129promdemo_latencyDistribution_bucket{vendor="otc",le="2000"} 108
130promdemo_latencyDistribution_bucket{vendor="otc",le="5000"} 123
131promdemo_latencyDistribution_bucket{vendor="otc",le="10000"} 138
132promdemo_latencyDistribution_bucket{vendor="otc",le="15000"} 153
133promdemo_latencyDistribution_bucket{vendor="otc",le="+Inf"} 15
134promdemo_latencyDistribution_sum{vendor="otc"} 1641
135promdemo_latencyDistribution_count{vendor="otc"} 15
136```
1375. After a few more seconds, Prometheus should start displaying your new metrics. You can view the distribution at http://localhost:9445/graph?g0.range_input=5m&g0.stacked=1&g0.expr=rate(oragent_latencyDistribution_bucket%5B5m%5D)&g0.tab=0.
138
1396. Zipkin should also start displaying traces. You can view them at http://localhost:9444/zipkin/?limit=10&lookback=300000&serviceName=go-tools-test.