Elastic APM Node.js OpenTracing Bridge

Note: This OpenTracing Bridge is deprecated in favor of the Elastic APM Node.js OpenTelemetry Bridge

An OpenTracing bridge for the Elastic APM Node.js Agent.

Prerequisites

This module have elastic-apm-node as a peer dependency.

Version 2.10.0 or higher of the Elastic APM Agent is required in order to use this module.

Installation

npm install elastic-apm-node-opentracing --save

Usage

// Start the Elastic APM agent at the VERY top of the first file loaded
// in your app
const agent = require('elastic-apm-node').start()
const Tracer = require('elastic-apm-node-opentracing')

// Pass the Elastic APM agent as an argument to the OpenTracing tracer
const tracer = new Tracer(agent)

const span = tracer.startSpan('my-first-span')
// ... do some work ...
span.finish()

API

tracer = new Tracer(agent)

This module exposes a Tracer class which is OpenTracing compatible.

When instantiating the Tracer object, an instance of the Elastic APM Node.js Agent must be provided as its only argument.

For details about the tracer API, see the opentracing-javascript API docs.

License

Apache-2.0