Gregg Donovan created SOLR-5969:
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Summary: Enable distributed tracing of requests
Key: SOLR-5969
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-5969
Project: Solr
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Gregg Donovan
Enable users to add diagnostic information to requests and trace them in the
logs across servers.
We have some metadata -- e.g. a request UUID -- that we log to every log line
using Log4J's MDC [1]. The UUID logging allows us to connect any log lines we
have for a given request across servers. Sort of like Zipkin [2].
Currently we're using EmbeddedSolrServer without sharding, so adding the UUID
is fairly simple, since everything is in one process and one thread. But, we're
testing a sharded HTTP implementation and running into some difficulties
getting this data passed around in a way that lets us trace all log lines
generated by a request to its UUID.
The first thing I tried was to add the UUID by adding it to the SolrParams.
This achieves the goal of getting those values logged on the shards if a
request is successful, but we miss having those values in the MDC if there are
other log lines before the final log line. E.g. an Exception in a custom
component.
My current thought is that sending HTTP headers with diagnostic information
would be very useful. Those could be placed in the MDC even before handing off
to work to SolrDispatchFilter, so that any Solr problem will have the proper
logging.
I.e. every additional header added to a Solr request gets a "Solr-" prefix. On
the server, we look for those headers and add them to the SLF4J MDC[3].
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