Accessing request traces

    You can update the configuration file for tracing in config-tracing.yaml.

    Follow the instructions in the file to set your configuration options. This file includes options such as sample rate (to determine what percentage of requests to trace), debug mode, and backend selection (zipkin or stackdriver).

    You can quickly explore and update the ConfigMap object with the following command:

    1. To open the Zipkin UI, enter the following command:

      This command starts a local proxy of Zipkin on port 8001. For security reasons, the Zipkin UI is exposed only within the cluster.

    2. Navigate to the .

    In order to access request traces, you use the Jaeger visualization tool.

    1. To open the Jaeger UI, enter the following command:

      This command starts a local proxy of Jaeger on port 8001. For security reasons, the Jaeger UI is exposed only within the cluster.