phosphord

PhosphorD

PhosphorD is a local forwarder, like StatsD, which receives traces from the Phosphor client, and forwards to the Phosphor server.

Currently this receives Traces over UDP, which prevents clients blocking, but is reasonably reliable on a local machine. In the event this blocks, traces will be dropped and lost.

A future improvement would make this configurable to read from local files, mirroring the behaviour of Dapper Daemons as described in the Google Dapper paper.

## Usage

go get github.com/mondough/phosphord

Command line options

  -buffer-size=200: set the maximum number of traces buffered per worker before batch sending
  -nsq-topic="trace": nsq topic to forward traces to
  -nsqd-tcp-address=: nsqd TCP address (may be given multiple times)
  -num-forwarders=20: set the number of workers which buffer and forward traces
  -verbose=false: enable verbose logging