Fix span leak for inbound & outbound #922
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Problem
Span leak is a issue in observability tracing where a span is started, but is not finished. The span will not be sent to tracing backend if it is not finished, hence causing incomplete traces.
Internally at Uber, we fond incomplete traces from time to time due to span leak caused in tchannel-go library. In the happy path, the span is properly finished, but the span leak issue in tchannel-go happens in error path when a function early returns with error.
E.g.
tchannel-go/thrift/client.go
Lines 139 to 152 in af146f5
In above code snippet, A span is created within
c.startCall
, and is finished withinreadResponse
whenreader.Close()
is executed. If there is an error occurred inwriteArgs
, then the span leak happens.This PR is to fix the span leak issue.
Change Summary
2.1. Add
finishSpanWithOptions
method that allowsspan.Finish()
to be invoked many times inInboundCallResponse
.2.2 . Use
finishSpanWithOptions
indispatchInbound
to always try to finish a span after the handler is called.3.1. Add
finishSpanWithOptions
inOutboundCallResponse
similar to inbound case3.2. Use
finishSpanWithOptions
json, thrift and raw clients.Next
At Uber, YARPC (yarpc-go) is often used as a umbrella RPC framework with gRPC, TChannel and HTTP as transports. When YARPC is used with TChannel, the span leak issue does also exist.
With this PR, the span leak in inbound is expected to be fixed for YARPC as well, but for outbound, we need to add
defer call.Response().Done
here in yarpc-go after this PR is merged.