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You can configure Subtrace to tag requests to categorize and search faster when you’re dealing with large request volumes. For instance, if you have a microservice architecture, it’s useful to tag each request by the service name so that you can filter requests by service later. Here’s an example config:
Use the --config command line flag to pass the config file to Subtrace:

Default Tags

Subtrace automatically populates requests with the following set of default set of tags based on the information it can gather about the environment:
  • hostname
The following default tags may be relevant if you’re on Google Cloud:
  • gcp_project
  • gke_cluster_location
  • gke_cluster_name
  • gke_node_name