Google Cloud Trace: is a distributed tracing system for Google Cloud that collects latency data from applications and displays it in near real-time in the Google Cloud Console.

• Client Library Documentation
• Product Documentation

In order to use this library, you first need to go through the following steps:

1. Select or create a Cloud Platform project.
2. Enable billing for your project.
3. Enable the Google Cloud Trace API.
4. Setup Authentication.

Install this library in a virtualenv using pip. virtualenv is a tool to create isolated Python environments. The basic problem it addresses is one of dependencies and versions, and indirectly permissions.

With virtualenv, it's possible to install this library without needing system install permissions, and without clashing with the installed system dependencies.

pip install virtualenv
virtualenv <your-env>
source <your-env>/bin/activate
<your-env>/bin/pip install google-cloud-trace

pip install virtualenv
virtualenv <your-env>
<your-env>\Scripts\activate
<your-env>\Scripts\pip.exe install google-cloud-trace

• Read the Client Library Documentation for Cloud Trace API to see other available methods on the client.
• Read the Cloud Trace Product documentation to learn more about the product and see How-to Guides.
• View this README to see the full list of Cloud APIs that we cover.