tilt-dev / tilt-dev/tilt

Add ability to view traces inside tilt

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Description

To improve observability it will be good to have integrations with popular tracing solutions like Jaeger and Zipkin.
Right now I see it something like this:
New tab in tilt's UI called traces, which can be something like recent grafana tracing viewer. Ability to go throughout all traces is not necessary, better have clickable trace IDs inside app's logs.
Traces can be fetched from tracing agent inside k8s cluster via REST API calls. We can fetch only traces that appears in logs or all traces from the agent. Tracing agent must be separate for a stand (for example it can be spun up with help of tilt extensions).
Ability to share traces with snapshots is also important, because traces can add a lot more context to help with debugging.

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Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by locating Tilt's UI, log, snapshot, and Kubernetes extension integration points, then clarify the trace-provider and trace-ID requirements; done would include an agreed scope for viewing and sharing traces.

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Assessment

Tech stack
go, grafana, kubernetes
Domain
observability
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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