Getting Started

Sleuth RabbitMQ

Run local RabbitMQ docker

docker run --rm -it --hostname my-rabbit -p 15672:15672 -p 5672:5672 rabbitmq:3-management

Run local Zipkin docker

docker run -d -p 9411:9411 openzipkin/zipkin

Now you can run DemoApplication.java
As observed, the trace will be enabled when the log level is set to DEBUG

Reference Documentation

For further reference, please consider the following sections:

Guides

The following guides illustrate how to use some features concretely:

Messaging with RabbitMQ

with brave (instrumented the header automatically)

2022-07-26 11:20:21.771 DEBUG [,,] 19627 --- [ main] o.s.amqp.rabbit.core.RabbitTemplate : Publishing message [(Body:'key-1;value-1' MessageProperties [headers={b3=57538165580910d3-57538165580910d3-0}, contentType=text/plain, contentEncoding=UTF-8, contentLength=13, deliveryMode=PERSISTENT, priority=0, deliveryTag=0])] on exchange [rmq-test-exchange], routingKey = [foo.one.baz]

2022-07-26 11:20:21.777 DEBUG [,,] 19627 --- [ container-1] o.s.a.r.listener.BlockingQueueConsumer : Received message: (Body:'key-1;value-1' MessageProperties [headers={b3=57538165580910d3-57538165580910d3-0}, contentType=text/plain, contentEncoding=UTF-8, contentLength=0, receivedDeliveryMode=PERSISTENT, priority=0, redelivered=false, receivedExchange=rmq-test-exchange, receivedRoutingKey=foo.one.baz, deliveryTag=1, consumerTag=amq.ctag-PB-GQ9HB6MOWVVaPVqawTg, consumerQueue=rmq_test_queue_one])

with otel (not instrumenting the header automatically)

2022-07-26 11:17:05.826 DEBUG [,,] 19519 --- [ main] o.s.amqp.rabbit.core.RabbitTemplate : Publishing message [(Body:'key-1;value-1' MessageProperties [headers={}, contentType=text/plain, contentEncoding=UTF-8, contentLength=13, deliveryMode=PERSISTENT, priority=0, deliveryTag=0])] on exchange [rmq-test-exchange], routingKey = [foo.one.baz]