# Tracing

Visualize the Requests Flow
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The tracing system allows developers to visualize call flows in their infrastructure.

Traefik uses OpenTracing, an open standard designed for distributed tracing.

Traefik supports three tracing backends: Jaeger, Zipkin, DataDog, and Instana.

## Configuration Reference

??? example "With Jaeger" 

    ```toml
    # Tracing definition
    [tracing]
      # Backend name used to send tracing data
      #
      # Default: "jaeger"
      #
      backend = "jaeger"
    
      # Service name used in Jaeger backend
      #
      # Default: "traefik"
      #
      serviceName = "traefik"
        
      # Span name limit allows for name truncation in case of very long Frontend/Backend names
      # This can prevent certain tracing providers to drop traces that exceed their length limits
      #
      # Default: 0 - no truncation will occur
      # 
      spanNameLimit = 0
    
      [tracing.jaeger]
        # Sampling Server URL is the address of jaeger-agent's HTTP sampling server
        #
        # Default: "http://localhost:5778/sampling"
        #
        samplingServerURL = "http://localhost:5778/sampling"
    
        # Sampling Type specifies the type of the sampler: const, probabilistic, rateLimiting
        #
        # Default: "const"
        #
        samplingType = "const"
    
        # Sampling Param is a value passed to the sampler.
        # Valid values for Param field are:
        #   - for "const" sampler, 0 or 1 for always false/true respectively
        #   - for "probabilistic" sampler, a probability between 0 and 1
        #   - for "rateLimiting" sampler, the number of spans per second
        #
        # Default: 1.0
        #
        samplingParam = 1.0
    
        # Local Agent Host Port instructs reporter to send spans to jaeger-agent at this address
        #
        # Default: "127.0.0.1:6831"
        #
        localAgentHostPort = "127.0.0.1:6831"
       
        # Generate 128-bit trace IDs, compatible with OpenCensus
        #
        # Default: false
        gen128Bit = true
       
        # Set the propagation header type. This can be either:
        #   - "jaeger", jaeger's default trace header.
        #   - "b3", compatible with OpenZipkin
        #
        # Default: "jaeger"
        propagation = "jaeger"
        
        # Trace Context Header Name is the http header name used to propagate tracing context.
        # This must be in lower-case to avoid mismatches when decoding incoming headers.
        #
        # Default: "uber-trace-id"
        #
        traceContextHeaderName = "uber-trace-id"
    ```

    !!! warning
        Traefik is only able to send data over the compact thrift protocol to the [Jaeger agent](https://www.jaegertracing.io/docs/deployment/#agent).

??? example "With Zipkin"

    ```toml
    # Tracing definition
    [tracing]
      # Backend name used to send tracing data
      #
      # Default: "jaeger"
      #
      backend = "zipkin"
    
      # Service name used in Zipkin backend
      #
      # Default: "traefik"
      #
      serviceName = "traefik"
        
      # Span name limit allows for name truncation in case of very long Frontend/Backend names
      # This can prevent certain tracing providers to drop traces that exceed their length limits
      #
      # Default: 0 - no truncation will occur
      # 
      spanNameLimit = 150
    
      [tracing.zipkin]
        # Zipkin HTTP endpoint used to send data
        #
        # Default: "http://localhost:9411/api/v1/spans"
        #
        httpEndpoint = "http://localhost:9411/api/v1/spans"
    
        # Enable Zipkin debug
        #
        # Default: false
        #
        debug = false
    
        # Use Zipkin SameSpan RPC style traces
        #
        # Default: false
        #
        sameSpan = false
    
        # Use Zipkin 128 bit root span IDs
        #
        # Default: true
        #
        id128Bit = true
    
        # The rate between 0.0 and 1.0 of requests to trace.
        #
        # Default: 1.0
        #
        sampleRate = 0.2
    ```

??? example "With DataDog"

    ```toml
    # Tracing definition
    [tracing]
      # Backend name used to send tracing data
      #
      # Default: "jaeger"
      #
      backend = "datadog"
    
      # Service name used in DataDog backend
      #
      # Default: "traefik"
      #
      serviceName = "traefik"
      
      # Span name limit allows for name truncation in case of very long Frontend/Backend names
      # This can prevent certain tracing providers to drop traces that exceed their length limits
      #
      # Default: 0 - no truncation will occur
      # 
      spanNameLimit = 100
    
      [tracing.datadog]
        # Local Agent Host Port instructs reporter to send spans to datadog-tracing-agent at this address
        #
        # Default: "127.0.0.1:8126"
        #
        localAgentHostPort = "127.0.0.1:8126"
    
        # Enable DataDog debug
        #
        # Default: false
        #
        debug = false
    
        # Apply shared tag in a form of Key:Value to all the traces
        #
        # Default: ""
        #
        globalTag = ""
        
        # Enable priority sampling. When using distributed tracing, this option must be enabled in order
        # to get all the parts of a distributed trace sampled.
        #
        # Default: false
        #
        prioritySampling = false

    ```
    
??? example "With Instana"

    ```toml
    # Tracing definition
    [tracing]
      # Backend name used to send tracing data
      #
      # Default: "jaeger"
      #
      backend = "instana"
      # Service name used in Instana backend
      #
      # Default: "traefik"
      #
      serviceName = "traefik"
      [tracing.instana]
        # Local Agent Host instructs reporter to send spans to instana-agent at this address
        #
        # Default: "127.0.0.1"
        #
        localAgentHost = "127.0.0.1"
        # Local Agent port instructs reporter to send spans to the instana-agent at this port
        # 
        # Default: 42699
        #
        localAgentPort = 42699
        # Set Instana tracer log level
        #
        # Default: info
        # Valid values for logLevel field are:
        #   - error
        #   - warn
        #   - debug
        #   - info
        #
        logLevel = "info"
    ```