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Observability & tracing ​

CargoShip can emit OpenTelemetry traces and Prometheus metrics during an upload so you can see where time goes across the scan, chunk, archive, and upload stages and watch throughput on a dashboard. Both are off by default; turn them on per run with flags on cargoship upload.

bash
cargoship upload ./my-data s3://my-bucket/archives/ \
  --tracing --tracing-exporter otlp \
  --tracing-endpoint http://localhost:4318 \
  --prometheus-addr :9090

Distributed tracing ​

Tracing instruments the pipeline with OpenTelemetry spans so you can follow a run stage by stage in a tracing backend.

  • --tracing — enable distributed tracing.
  • --tracing-exporter — where spans go: stdout (default), jaeger, otlp, or none.
  • --tracing-endpoint — collector URL; required for the jaeger and otlp exporters (for example http://localhost:4318 for an OTLP/HTTP collector).
  • --tracing-sample-rate — fraction of traces to record, 0.0–1.0 (default 1.0, meaning trace every run). Lower it for high-volume automation.
bash
# Send spans straight to a local Jaeger instance
cargoship upload ./my-data s3://my-bucket/archives/ \
  --tracing --tracing-exporter jaeger \
  --tracing-endpoint http://localhost:14268/api/traces

Prometheus metrics ​

--prometheus-addr starts an HTTP endpoint that exposes CargoShip's metrics in Prometheus format for the duration of the run. Point a Prometheus scrape or a Grafana dashboard at it:

bash
cargoship upload ./my-data s3://my-bucket/archives/ --prometheus-addr :9090
# metrics available at http://localhost:9090/metrics

CloudWatch metrics ​

Separately from per-run tracing, the top-level cargoship metrics command tests CargoShip's CloudWatch integration so you can confirm metrics reach AWS monitoring:

bash
# Publish test metrics to CloudWatch
cargoship metrics --test

# Use a custom namespace and region
cargoship metrics --test --namespace "CargoShip/Prod" --region us-east-1
  • --test — publish test metrics to CloudWatch.
  • --namespace — CloudWatch namespace (default CargoShip/Test).
  • --region — AWS region for CloudWatch (default us-west-2).

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