gRPC C++ GCP Observability Hello World Example

This example consists of a hello world client and a hello world server instrumented with GCP Observability for logs, metrics and tracing. Note that familiarity with the basic hello world example is assumed.

Please refer to GCP's Microservices Observability user guide for setup instructions.

Run the example with configuration

To use Observability, you should first setup and configure authorization as mentioned in the Microservices Observability user guide.

You need to set the GRPC_GCP_OBSERVABILITY_CONFIG_FILE environment variable to point to the gRPC GCP Observability configuration file (preferred) or alternatively set GRPC_GCP_OBSERVABILITY_CONFIG environment variable to gRPC GCP Observability configuration value. This is needed by both client and server.

Sample configurations are provided with the example.

To start the observability-enabled example server on its default port of 50051, run the following from the grpc directory:

$ export
    GRPC_GCP_OBSERVABILITY_CONFIG_FILE="$(pwd)/examples/cpp/gcp_observability/helloworld/server_config.json"
$ tools/bazel run examples/cpp/gcp_observability/helloworld:greeter_server

In a different terminal window, run the observability-enabled example client:

$ export
    GRPC_GCP_OBSERVABILITY_CONFIG_FILE="$(pwd)/examples/cpp/gcp_observability/helloworld/client_config.json"
$ tools/bazel run examples/cpp/gcp_observability/helloworld:greeter_client