Code-free tracing with LogStash and Jaeger

I wanted to show request charts (similar to the network tab in firefox) for requests across our microservices but wanted to do so in the least invasive way possible. We already use LogStash to collect logs from multiple hosts (via FileBeat) and forward them on to ElasticSearch, so perhaps I can do something to also output from LogStash to a tracing service. There are a number of tracing services available (AppDash, Jaeger, Zipkin), but unfortunately LogStash doesn’t have plugins for any of them or for OpenTracing....

December 22, 2018 · 12 min