ls-trace-js

Datadog has generously announced the donation of their tracer libraries to the OpenTelemety, project. Auto-instrumentation is a core feature of these libraries, making it possible to create and collect telemetry data without needing to change your code. LightStep wants you to be able to use these libraries now! ls-trace-js is LightStep's fork of Datadog’s tracing client for Javascript. You can install and use it to take advantage of auto-instrumentation without waiting for OpenTelemetry. Each LightStep agent is “pinned” to a Datadog release and is fully supported by LightStep’s Customer Success team.

JavaScript APM Tracer

Datadog APM tracing client for JavaScript.

Getting Started

For a basic product overview, check out our setup documentation

For descriptions of terminology used in APM, take a look at the official documentation

Development

Before contributing to this open source project, read our CONTRIBUTING.md.

Requirements

Since this project supports multiple Node versions, using a version manager such as nvm is recommended.

We use yarn for its workspace functionality, so make sure to install that as well.

To get started once you have Node and yarn installed, run:

$ yarn

Testing

Before running the tests, the data stores need to be running. The easiest way to start all of them is to use the provided docker-compose configuration:

$ docker-compose up -d -V --remove-orphans --force-recreate

Unit Tests

To run the unit tests, use:

$ yarn test

To run the unit tests continuously in watch mode while developing, use:

$ yarn tdd

Memory Leaks

To run the memory leak tests, use:

$ yarn leak

Please note that memory leak tests only run on Node >=8.

Linting

We use ESLint to make sure that new code is conform to our coding standards.

To run the linter, use:

$ yarn lint

Continuous Integration

We rely on CircleCI 2.0 for our tests. If you want to test how the CI behaves locally, you can use the CircleCI Command Line Interface as described here: https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/local-jobs/

After installing the circleci CLI, simply run one of the following:

$ circleci build --job lint
$ circleci build --job node-leaks
$ circleci build --job node-core-8
$ circleci build --job node-core-10
$ circleci build --job node-core-12
$ circleci build --job node-core-latest

Benchmarks

When two or more approaches must be compared, please write a benchmark in the benchmark/index.js module so that we can keep track of the most efficient algorithm. To run your benchmark, just:

$ yarn bench

Generating proto

make proto

if you don't have required packages

make clone

Versioning

ls-trace follows its own versioning scheme. The table below shows the corresponding dd-trace-ls versions.

ls-trace version	dd-trace-ls version
v0.1.0	v0.16.1

Release process using auto script

1. Run command

make release RELEASE_TYPE=patch

Support

Contact support@lightstep.com for additional questions and resources, or to be added to our community slack channel.

Licensing

This is a fork of dd-trace-js and retains the original Datadog license and copyright. See the license for more details.