Datadog ddtrace

Abstract

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There are 2 ways to trace applications:

1. Adding the tracer in Code
2. Adding the tracer via command line arguments

I usually start with the second way. Because it is not intrusive, so it is easy to add in. And it is already pretty powerful

Fine-tune ddtrace

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We can fine tune the tracer by using this list of environment variables

I always set the DD_ENV and DD_SERVICE to get Trace display nicely inside the Datadog dashboard

References

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• Official Datadog Tracing Library
• ddtrace Configuration