Hacker News Reader

Yep! The Java library has some basic z-page support, but adding high quality z-pages will be a big part of the OpenCensus agent and OpenCensus service that we're developing now. These can be used within Kubernetes environments or on plain VMs.

View on HN

High quality z-pages are great, but if there's no easy and secure way for a developer to get to them, they become useless. Rather than their contents or generation, my question is about automatic discovery and secure, restricted proxying of the pages. I don't want to tell my colleagues to run ad-hoc kubectl commands for each service or pod they want to inspect.

Ah, got it. We've discussed exactly this (within Google) with some of the Kubernetes maintainers who have similar wishes to yourself. The most immediate z-pages related work is focused on making them better in the more general case, as they're extremely barebones at the moment and are specific to each language's library. After that we'll explore the native Kubernetes integrations that you're asking for.

It'll come, but it's going to take some time.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com