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Remote sensors provide information about the remote calls made in an application. These sensors enable tracking of the remote calls and combing interactions between JVMs in a single trace. There are two types of remote sensors: server and client. Client-side remote sensor start a new tracing span before making an outgoing request and propagate the new span identification along with that request. Server-side implementations first extract a span identification from an incoming request and continuing or starting a trace from that point. Server ones are dealing with server-side requests, while client ones are capturing the client-side requests. Note that in remote communication one JVM can usually stand as both server (receiving requests) and client (making requests to another JVM/component).
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Remote Sensor | Type | Technology | Library / Framework | Description | ||||||
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| Remote Apache HTTP Java Server Client SensorServer | Client | HTTP | Java Servlet APIApache HttpComponents Client (version | 24.x | & up) | Intercepts | server requests served with Java Servlet APIclient requests made with Apache HTTP Client. Compatible with all 4.x versions. | |||
| Remote Async Apache HTTP Client Sensor | Client | HTTP | Apache HttpComponents Apache HttpComponents Async Client (version 4.x) | Intercepts client requests made with Apache HTTP Async Client. Compatible with all 4.x versionsversions 4.x. | ||||||
Remote HTTP Java Server Sensor | Server | HTTP | Java Servlet API (version 2.x & up) | Intercepts server requests served with Java Servlet API. | ||||||
| Remote Jetty HTTP Client Sensor | Client | HTTP | Jetty Http Client (versions 6.x, 7.x & 8.x) | Intercepts client requests made with Jetty HTTP Client. Compatible with versions 6.x, 7.x & 8.x. Not compatible with latest versions of Jetty Client. | ||||||
| Remote | URL Connection ClientJMS Listener Server Sensor | ClientServer | HTTPJMS | Java | URL Connection (Java 6+)Intercepts client requests made with Java URL connection. Independent of Java version usedMessage Service API (version 1.x & up) | Intercepts JMS message receiving via Message Listener. | ||||
| Remote JMS Client Sensor | Client | JMS | Java Message Service API (version 1.x & up) | Intercepts JMS message sending via Message Producer. | ||||||
| Remote Spring Template Client Sensor | Client | HTTP | Spring Template (version 3.x & 4.x) | Intercepts client requests made with Spring RestTemplate wrapper. Helpful if you use Spring RestTemplate with a Netty, OkHttp or Async Apache HTTP client as underlying request factory. | ||||||
| Remote JMS Listener Server URL Connection Client SensorServer | Client | JMSHTTP | Java Message Service API (version 1.x & up) | Intercepts JMS message receiving via Message Listener. | Remote JMS Client Sensor | Client | JMS | Java Message Service API (version 1.x & up) | Intercepts JMS message sending via Message ProducerURL Connection (Java 6+) | Intercepts client requests made with Java URL connection. Independent of Java version used. |
| Remote Manual Server Sensor | Server | - | - | Intercepts server requests independent of technology and library/framework. Useful to mark custom trace start points, for example at the begging of the batch job. |
Supporting Sensors
The following table provides an overview of sensors which purpose is supporting the functionality of another sensor. In most cases, the individual usage of these sensors will not make any sense.
| Sensor | Supported Sensor | Description |
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| Apache Client Exchange Handler Sensor | Remote Async Apache HTTP Client Sensor | Intercepts the exchange handler of the Apache HTTP Async Client in order to correctly start a tracing span. Without this sensor, the collected spans will not have any timings. |