Manual Go Tracing

highlight.Start starts a goroutine for recording and sending backend traces and errors. Setting your project id lets Highlight record errors for background tasks and processes that aren't associated with a frontend session.

import (
  "github.com/highlight/highlight/sdk/highlight-go"
)

func main() {
  // ...
  highlight.SetProjectID("<YOUR_PROJECT_ID>")
  highlight.Start(
	highlight.WithServiceName("my-app"),
	highlight.WithServiceVersion("git-sha"),
  )
  defer highlight.Stop()
  // ...
}

Wrap your code using the Go SDK.

By wrapping your code with StartTrace and EndTrace, the Highlight Go SDK will record a span. You can create more child spans using the child context or add custom attributes to each span.

import (
	"github.com/highlight/highlight/sdk/highlight-go"
	"go.opentelemetry.io/otel/attribute"
)

func functionToTrace(ctx context.Context, input int) {
	s, childContext := highlight.StartTrace(ctx, "functionToTrace", attribute.Int("custom_property", input))
	// ...
	anotherFunction(childContext)
	// ...
	highlight.EndTrace(s)
}

func anotherFunction(ctx context.Context) {
	s, _ := highlight.StartTrace(ctx, "anotherFunction")
	// ...
	highlight.EndTrace(s)
}

Verify your backend traces are being recorded.

Visit the highlight traces portal and check that backend traces are coming in.

Tracing in Go GORM