lightstep-tracer-cpp

The LightStep distributed tracing library for C++.

Installation

$ mkdir .build
$ cd .build
$ cmake ..
$ make
$ sudo make install

Getting started

To initialize the LightStep library in particular, either retain a reference to the LightStep opentracing::Tracer implementation and/or set the global Tracer like so:

#include <lightstep/tracer.h>
using namespace lightstep;

int main() {
  // Initialize the LightStep Tracer; see lightstep::LightStepTracerOptions for
  // tuning, etc.
  LightStepTracerOptions options;
  options.access_token = "YourAccessToken";
  auto tracer = MakeLightStepTracer(options);

  // Optionally set the opentracing global Tracer to the above.
  opentracing::Tracer::InitGlobal(tracer);

  return 0;
}

For instrumentation documentation, see the opentracing-cpp docs.