Unofficial, simple yet effective Google Cloud Trace CLI tool.

Installation

Homebrew (Linux/macOS)

brew install moshebe/pkg/gtrace

Go (Linux/Windows/macOS/any other platform supported by Go)

If you have Go 1.16+, you can install latest released version of gtrace directly from source by running:

go install github.com/moshebe/gtrace@latest

Usage

› gtrace help
NAME:
   gtrace - Google Cloud Trace CLI tool

USAGE:
   Simple command-line tool for query and fetch tracing information from Cloud Trace API.
   Find more information at: https://cloud.google.com/trace/docs

VERSION:
   v1.0.0

COMMANDS:
   get      Get a specific trace by id from one or more projects
   list     Query traces from a project according to the given conditions
   url      Generate a browsable URL for a given trace
   format   Format trace spans according to a given template
   help, h  Shows a list of commands or help for one command

GLOBAL OPTIONS:
   --help, -h     show help (default: false)
   --version, -v  print the version (default: false)

Authentication

Google Cloud APIs has a few methods to authenticate:

On your machine maka sure you have gcloud and that you are logged-in and then run gcloud auth application-default login
If you are running on GKE you can use Workload Identity
Service accounts with JSON keys
Pointing to your service account via env GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS

You can read about it more on: https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/getting-started

Examples

Fetch a specific trace from multiple projects:

gtrace get --project production-a,production-b 5e26a889fa12da351beee9ea16ce0a65

Format trace spans by a specific template:

gtrace format -f /tmp/trace.json --template "{{ .Name }}, {{ .Duration }}"

Query traces by multiple filters from the last 3 hours: