[ACCUMULO-3971] Better doc for tracing

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.7.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.7.1, 1.8.0
• Component/s: docs, trace
• Labels: documentation
• Assignee: Shana Hutchison
• Reporter: Shana Hutchison
• Created: 23/Aug/15 23:40
• Updated: 03/Jun/16 18:09
• Resolved: 28/Aug/15 03:34

Description

Developers who want to go beyond Accumulo's default tracing are too much on their own to figure out how to use Accumulo's tracing features. I had to dive deep into source code to figure out how to understand the trace table format and add a ZipkinSpanReceiver. I'd like to share what I found so that other developers do not have to to the same.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #44