Configuring CTS to Upload Traces to LTS

Scenarios

This section describes how to enable trace analysis on the Cloud Trace Service (CTS) console to report traces to LTS, so you can query the traces on the LTS console.

Operation process

Figure 1 Flowchart

Operations in Figure 1 are performed on different consoles:

  1. CTS console: Enabling CTS and creating and configuring a tracker
  1. LTS console: Viewing traces reported by CTS

Enabling CTS

You can perform the following operations to enable CTS and create a tracker.

  1. Log in to the management console.
  2. In the upper left corner of the management console, select the target region and project.
  3. Click Service List and choose Management & Deployment > Cloud Trace Service.
  4. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Tracker.
  5. On the Tracker page, click Enable CTS.
  6. On the displayed page, set OBS Bucket.
    Figure 2 Enabling CTS
  7. Click OK.

    After you enable CTS, tracker system is automatically created. All recorded traces are associated with the tracker.

    Currently, only one tracker can be created for each account.

Configuring the Tracker

You can perform the following operations to enable the trace analysis function, thus reporting CTS traces to LTS.

  1. On the Tracker page, click Configure in the Operation column.

    The Configure Tracker page is displayed.

  2. On the displayed page, enable Trace Analysis.
    Figure 3 Configuring a tracker

    During CTS trace reporting, the system automatically creates a log group and a log topic on the LTS console.

  3. Click OK.

Viewing Logs in Real Time

You can perform the following operations to view logs reported by CTS:

  1. Click Service List and choose Management & Deployment > Log Tank Service.
  2. In the log group list, click the name of the target log group.
  3. In the log topic list, locate the target log topic and click View in the Operation column.
    Figure 4 Viewing logs in real time

    Logs are reported to LTS every 10 minutes. In the log display area, you may wait for at most 10 minutes to view the logs.

    In addition, you can customize log display by clicking Clear, Pause, or Close in the upper right corner.
    Figure 5 Log display area
    • Clear: clears all logs that are displayed in the log display area.
    • Pause: pauses the real-time log display so that you can view details of the displayed logs.

      After you click Pause, the button changes to Continue. You can click Continue to resume the log display.

    • Close: closes the real-time log view page. You are redirected to the Log Topic List page.
Parent topic: Getting Started