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# OpenCensus - A stats collection and distributed tracing framework
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OpenCensus is a toolkit for collecting application performance and behavior data. It currently 
includes 3 apis: stats, tracing and tags.

The library is in alpha stage and the API is subject to change.

Please join [gitter](https://gitter.im/census-instrumentation/Lobby) for help or feedback on this
project.

## Instrumentation Quickstart

Integrating OpenCensus with a new library means recording stats or traces and propagating context.

### Add the dependencies to your project

For Maven add to your `pom.xml`:
```xml
<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>io.opencensus</groupId>
    <artifactId>opencensus-api</artifactId>
    <version>0.6.0</version>
  </dependency>
</dependencies>
```

For Gradle add to your dependencies:
```gradle
compile 'io.opencensus:opencensus-api:0.6.0'
```

### Hello "OpenCensus" trace events

Here's an example of creating a Span and record some trace annotations. Notice that recording the
annotations is possible because we propagate scope. 3rd parties libraries like SLF4J can integrate
the same way.

```java
public final class MyClassWithTracing {
  public static void doWork() {
    // Create a child Span of the current Span.
    try (Scope ss = tracer.spanBuilder("MyChildWorkSpan").startScopedSpan()) {
      doInitialWork();
      tracer.getCurrentSpan().addAnnotation("Finished initial work");
      doFinalWork();
    }
  }
  
  private static void doInitialWork() {
    // ...
    tracer.getCurrentSpan().addAnnotation("Important.");
    // ...
  }
  
  private static void doFinalWork() {
    // ...
    tracer.getCurrentSpan().addAnnotation("More important.");
    // ...
  }
}
```

### Hello "OpenCensus" stats events

TODO

## Quickstart for Applications

Besides recording tracing/stats events the application also need to link the implementation, 
setup exporters, and debugging [Z-Pages](https://github.com/census-instrumentation/opencensus-java/tree/master/contrib/zpages).

### Add the dependencies to your project

For Maven add to your `pom.xml`:
```xml
<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>io.opencensus</groupId>
    <artifactId>opencensus-api</artifactId>
    <version>0.6.0</version>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>io.opencensus</groupId>
    <artifactId>opencensus-impl</artifactId>
    <version>0.6.0</version>
    <scope>runtime</scope>
  </dependency>
</dependencies>
```

For Gradle add to your dependencies:
```gradle
compile 'io.opencensus:opencensus-api:0.6.0'
runtime 'io.opencensus:opencensus-impl:0.6.0'
```

### How to setup exporters?

#### Trace exporters
* [Logging](https://github.com/census-instrumentation/opencensus-java/tree/master/exporters/trace_logging#quickstart)
* [Stackdriver Trace](https://github.com/census-instrumentation/opencensus-java/tree/master/exporters/trace_stackdriver#quickstart)

#### Stats exporters
* TODO

### How to setup debugging Z-Pages?

If the application owner wants to export in-process tracing and stats data via HTML debugging pages 
see this [link](https://github.com/census-instrumentation/opencensus-java/tree/master/contrib/zpages#quickstart).

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