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Installation + Quickstart
=========================
Before installing be sure to read through the `setup documentation`_ to ensure
your environment is ready to receive traces.
Installation
------------
Install with :code:`pip`::
$ pip install ddtrace
We strongly suggest pinning the version of the library you deploy.
Quickstart
----------
Getting started with ``ddtrace`` is as easy as prefixing your python
entry-point command with ``ddtrace-run``.
For example if you start your application with ``python app.py`` then run::
$ ddtrace-run python app.py
For more advanced usage of ``ddtrace-run`` refer to the documentation :ref:`here<ddtracerun>`.
To find out how to trace your own code manually refer to the documentation :ref:`here<basic usage>`.
Configuration
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
You can configure some parameters of the library by setting environment
variable before starting your application and importing the library:
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* - Configuration Variable
- Configuration Type
- Default Value
- Value Description
* - ``DD_TRACE_AGENT_URL``
- URL
- ``http://localhost:8126``
- The URL to use to connect the Datadog agent. The url can starts with
``http://`` to connect using HTTP or with ``unix://`` to use a Unix
Domain Socket.
OpenTracing
-----------
``ddtrace`` also provides an OpenTracing API to the Datadog tracer so
that you can use the Datadog tracer in your OpenTracing-compatible
applications.
Installation
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Include OpenTracing with ``ddtrace``::
$ pip install ddtrace[opentracing]
To include the OpenTracing dependency in your project with ``ddtrace``, ensure
you have the following in ``setup.py``::
install_requires=[
"ddtrace[opentracing]",
],
Configuration
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The OpenTracing convention for initializing a tracer is to define an
initialization method that will configure and instantiate a new tracer and
overwrite the global ``opentracing.tracer`` reference.
Typically this method looks something like::
from ddtrace.opentracer import Tracer, set_global_tracer
def init_tracer(service_name):
"""
Initialize a new Datadog opentracer and set it as the
global tracer.
This overwrites the opentracing.tracer reference.
"""
config = {
'agent_hostname': 'localhost',
'agent_port': 8126,
}
tracer = Tracer(service_name, config=config)
set_global_tracer(tracer)
return tracer
For more advanced usage of OpenTracing in ``ddtrace`` refer to the
documentation :ref:`here<adv_opentracing>`.