Telemetry

Telemetry is a ruby port of the Erlang BEAM library telemetry. The purpose of this library is to provide a generalized notification/subscriber library for use with other Ruby libraries in collecting "stats" or bits of telemetry information gathered by instrumenting that code.

This should function similar to ActiveSupport::Notifications, but without Rails.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'telemetry-ruby', require: 'telemetry'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install telemetry-ruby

Dependencies

Telemetry has one major dependency: concurrent-ruby. This is to provide thread-safe access to a map of all attached handlers.

Usage

Subscribing

As a handler (subscriber) of events, you'll want to start by writing your handler:

class YourHandler
  def self.some_function(key, measurements, metadata, config)
    # ...
  end
end

Next, you can attach this handler with a unique name, for the configured event keys.

The event keys will be defined by the instrumented code, either yours or from a library you're using.

Extra information in the third argument will be passed to your handler function.

Telemetry.attach('unique-name-for-your-handler', [:keys, :for, :event], {extra: 'info', you: 'provide'}, &YourHandler.method(:some_function))

# or with a block
Telemetry.attach('unique-name-for-your-handler', [:keys, :for, :event], {extra: 'info', you: 'provide'}) do |key, measurements, metadata, config|
end

Any method or block you provide should be thread safe, as we cannot guarantee that multiple instrumented threads will not call Telemetry.execute at the same time.

Instrumenting

Telemetry.execute(
  [:keys, :for, :event],
  {hash: 'of', measurement: 'data'},
  {event: 'metadata'}
)

# or, with a block, which will add timing to measurements
Telemetry.execute(
  [:keys, :for, :event],
  {hash: 'of', measurement: 'data'},
  {event: 'metadata'}
) do
  # Do some stuff here
end

Measurements

Should be used to contain analytical or statistical values such as timing or counts.

Metadata

Should be used to provide contextual information about the call such as user id, route, path, etc.

Timing with blocks

Calling Telemetry.execute with a block will add the :timing key to the measurements hash. It will not overwrite an existing :timing key used in the call to execute.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/tpitale/telemetry-ruby. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Code of Conduct

Everyone interacting in the Telemetry project’s codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.