troncos 8.0.1
Collection of Python logging and tracing tools
License: MIT
Requires Python: <3.15,>=3.11
Keywords: logs, traces, opentelemetry

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  Troncos <br/>
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        Collection of Python logging and tracing tools
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- [Etymology](#etymology)
- [Installation](#installation)
- [Tracing](#tracing)
- [Logging](#logging)
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## Etymology

"Troncos" is the plural of the spanish word "Tronco", which translates to "trunk" or "log".

## Installation

```console
# With pip
pip install troncos
```

## Tracing

Troncos is designed to take advantage of `ddtrace` made by DataDog.

The ddtrace docs can be found [here](https://ddtrace.readthedocs.io/en/stable/).

[Best practices for traces](https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/operations/best-practices/#naming-conventions-for-span-and-resource-attributes) is a good guide to get started.

### Span vs resource attributes

- A `span attribute` is a key/value pair that provides context for its span.
- A `resource attribute` is a key/value pair that describes the context of how the span was collected.

For more information, read the [Attribute and Resource](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otel/overview/) sections in the OpenTelemetry specification.

### Enabling the tracer

Configure ddtrace as usual and run `configure_tracer` to send spans to Tempo.

This is typically done in `settings.py` of you want to profile a Django application,
or in `__init__.py` in the root project package.

`TRACE_HOST` is usually the host IP of the K8s pod, `TRACE_PORT` is usually 4318
when the Grafana agent is used to collect spans using HTTP.

```python
import ddtrace
from ddtrace.trace import tracer

from troncos.tracing import configure_tracer, Exporter

# Configure tracer as described in the ddtrace docs.
ddtrace.config.django["service_name"] = 'SERVICE_NAME'
# These are added as span attributes
tracer.set_tags(
    tags={
        "key": "value",
    }
)

# Patch third-party modules
ddtrace.patch(django=True)

# Configure the ddtrace tracer to send traces to Tempo.
configure_tracer(
    service_name='SERVICE_NAME',
    exporter=Exporter(
        host = "127.0.0.1",  # Usually obtained from env variables.
    ),
    resource_attributes={
        "app": "app",
        "component": "component",
        "role": "role",
        "tenant": "tenant",
        "owner": "owner",
        "version": "version",
    },
    enabled=True,
)
```

ddtrace also uses env variables to configure the service name, environment and version etc.

Add the following environment variables to your application.

```console
DD_ENV="{{ environment }}"
DD_SERVICE="{{ app }}"
DD_VERSION="{{ version }}"
# tracecontext/w3c is usually used to propagate distributed traces across services.
DD_TRACE_PROPAGATION_STYLE_EXTRACT="tracecontext"
DD_TRACE_PROPAGATION_STYLE_INJECT="tracecontext"
```

#### Debugging during development

By setting the environment variable `OTEL_TRACE_DEBUG=True` you will enable traces
to be printed to `stdout` via the ConsoleSpanExporter as well as through http/grpc.
Also specifying `OTEL_TRACE_DEBUG_FILE=/some/file/path` will output traces to the
specified file path instead of the console/stdout.

### Using the GRPC span exporter

Using the GRPC span exporter gives you significant performance gains.
If you are running a critical service with high load in production,
we recommend using GRPC.

The port is usually `4317` when the Grafana agent is used to collect
spans using GRPC.

```console
poetry add troncos -E grpc
```

or

```toml
[tool.poetry.dependencies]
troncos = {version="?", extras = ["grpc"]}
```

```python
from troncos.tracing import configure_tracer, Exporter


configure_tracer(
    service_name='SERVICE_NAME',
    exporter=Exporter(
        host = "127.0.0.1", # Usually obtained from env variables.
        port = "4317",
    ),
    enabled=True,
)
```

### Setting headers for the exporter

```python
from troncos.tracing import configure_tracer, Exporter


configure_tracer(
    service_name='SERVICE_NAME',
    exporter=Exporter(
        host = "127.0.0.1", # Usually obtained from env variables.
        headers={"my": "header"},
    ),
    enabled=True,
)
```

### Instrument your code

Manual instrumentation of your code is described in the [ddtrace docs](https://ddtrace.readthedocs.io/en/stable/basic_usage.html#manual-instrumentation).

### Add tracing context to your log

Adding the tracing context to your log makes it easier to find relevant traces in Grafana.
Troncos include a Structlog processor designed to do this.

```python
import structlog

from troncos.contrib.structlog.processors import trace_injection_processor

structlog.configure(
    processors=[
        trace_injection_processor,
    ],
)
```

### Logging of major actions in your application

Finding relevant traces in Grafana can be difficult. One way to make finding the relevant traces
easier it to log every major action in your application. This typically means logging every
incoming HTTP request to your server or every task executed by your Celery worker.

The structlog processor above needs to be enabled before logging your major actions is relevant.

#### ASGI middleware

Log ASGI requests.

```python
from starlette.applications import Starlette

from troncos.contrib.asgi.logging.middleware import AsgiLoggingMiddleware

application = AsgiLoggingMiddleware(Starlette())
```

#### Django middleware

Log Django requests. This is not needed if you run Django with ASGI and use the
ASGI middleware.

```python
MIDDLEWARE = [
    "troncos.contrib.django.logging.middleware.DjangoLoggingMiddleware",
    ...
]
```

#### Celery signals

`
Log Celery tasks. Run the code bellow when you configure Celery.

```python
from troncos.contrib.celery.logging.signals import (
    connect_troncos_logging_celery_signals,
)

connect_troncos_logging_celery_signals()
```

## Logging

Troncos is not designed to take control over your logger. But, we do include logging
related tools to make instrumenting your code easier.

### Configure Structlog

Troncos contains a helper method that lets you configure Structlog.

First, run `poetry add structlog` to install structlog in your project.

You can now replace your existing logger config with

```python
from troncos.contrib.structlog import configure_structlog

configure_structlog(format="json", level="INFO")
```

### Adding tracing context to your log

Troncos has a Structlog processor that can be used to add the `span_id` and `trace_id`
properties to your log. More information can be found in the [Tracing](#tracing)
section in this document. This is used by the `configure_structlog` helper method
by default.

### Request logging middleware

Finding the relevant traces in Tempo and Grafana can be difficult. The request logging
middleware exist to make it easier to connect HTTP requests to traces. More information
can be found in the [Tracing](#tracing) section in this document.