io.opencensus.contrib.agent

Class AgentMain

java.lang.Object

io.opencensus.contrib.agent.AgentMain

public final class AgentMain
extends Object

The OpenCensus Agent for Java collects and sends latency data about your Java process to OpenCensus backends such as Stackdriver Trace for analysis and visualization.

To enable the *OpenCensus Agent for Java* for your application, add the option -javaagent:path/to/opencensus-contrib-agent.jar to the invocation of the java executable as shown in the following example:

 java -javaagent:path/to/opencensus-contrib-agent.jar ...
 

Since:

0.6

See Also:

https://github.com/census-instrumentation/instrumentation-java/tree/master/agent

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static void	premain(String agentArgs, Instrumentation instrumentation) Initializes the OpenCensus Agent for Java.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

premain

public static void premain(String agentArgs,
                           Instrumentation instrumentation)
                    throws Exception

Initializes the OpenCensus Agent for Java.

Parameters:

agentArgs - agent options, passed as a single string by the JVM

instrumentation - the Instrumentation object provided by the JVM for instrumenting Java programming language code

Throws:

Exception - if initialization of the agent fails

Since:

0.6

See Also:

java.lang.instrument