Cloud-Native Observability with OpenTelemetry

Chapter 4: Distributed Tracing – Tracing Code Execution

So, now that we have an understanding of the concepts of OpenTelemetry and are familiar with the different signals it covers, it's time to start instrumenting application code. In Chapter 2, OpenTelemetry Signals – Tracing, Metrics, and Logging, we covered the terminology and concepts of those signals by looking at a system that was instrumented with OpenTelemetry. Now, it's time to get hands-on with some code to start generating telemetry ourselves, and to do this, we're going to first look at implementing a tracing signal.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Configuring OpenTelemetry
• Generating tracing data
• Enriching the data with attributes, events, and links
• Adding ...