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Oliver Tale-Yazdi 580111dd98 Tests can use dbg macro (#7197)
There is a deny(clippy::dbg_macro) in the crate root, so newer
Clippy fails here since tests use dbg.
But dbg in tests are fine IMHO.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Tale-Yazdi <oliver.tale-yazdi@parity.io>
2023-05-08 16:48:04 +00:00
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tracing-gum

"gum" to make tracing::{warn,info,..} and mick-jaeger stick together, to be cross referenced in grafana with zero additional loc in the source code.

Architecture Decision Record (ADR)

Context

For cross referencing spans and logs in grafana loki and tempo, a shared traceID or TraceIdentifier is required. All logs must be annotated with such meta information.

In most cases CandidateHash is the primary identifier of the jaeger::Span and hence the source from which the traceID is derived. For cases where it is not the primary identifier, a helper tag named traceID is added to those spans (out of scope, this is already present as a convenience measure).

Log lines on the other hand side, use warn!,info!,debug!,trace!,.. API provided by the tracing crate. Many of these, contain a candidate_hash, which is not equivalent to the traceID (256bits vs 128bits), and hence must be derived.

To achieve the cross ref, either all instances of candidate_hash could be added or this could be approached more systematically by providing a macro to automatically do so.

Related issues:

Decision

Adding approx. 2 lines per tracing line including a candidate_hash reference, to derive the TraceIdentifier from that, and printing that as part of the key-value section in the tracing::* macros. The visual overhead and friction and required diligence to keep the 100s of tracing::{warn!,info!,debug!,..} up is unreasonably high in the mid/long run. This is especially true, in the context of more people joining the team. Hence a proc-macro is introduced which abstracts this away, and does so automagically at the cost of one-more-proc-macro in the codebase.

Consequences

Minimal training/impact is required to name CandidateHash as candidate_hash when providing to any of the log macros (warn!, info!, etc.).

The crate has to be used throughout the entire codebase to work consistently, to disambiguate, the prefix gum:: is used.

Feature parity with tracing::{warn!,..} is not desired. We want consistency more than anything. All currently used features are supported with gum as well.