Exporting to the logger with OpenCensus

Document updated on Oct 24, 2022

Opencensus can export data to the system logger as another exporter. This is not the standard KrakenD Logging, and you should not enable both.

Enabling it only requires you to add the logger exporter in the opencensus module.

The following configuration snippet enables the logger:

{
  "extra_config":{
    "telemetry/opencensus": {
        "sample_rate": 100,
        "reporting_period": 0,
        "exporters": {
          "logger": {
              "stats": true,
              "spans": true
          }
        }
    }
}

As with all OpenCensus exporters, you can add optional settings in the telemetry/opencensus level:

Then, the exporters key must contain an logger entry with the following properties: