11 Tracing microservices
This chapter covers
- Using tracing between microservices
- Viewing traces with the Jaeger UI
- Injecting a tracer to customize attributes on a span
- Tracing beyond HTTP
Any form of application observability requires tracing execution paths within a distributed system. With the rise of distributed systems, developers can no longer debug and step through code because they are now dealing with many services. Tracing is the new debugging when dealing with distributed systems. In addition, being able to visualize the bottlenecks in services by observing higher execution times is critical. By no means does this discount the importance of observing metrics, discussed in chapter 10, but it is often necessary to drill deeper into ...
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