February 2019
Intermediate to advanced
444 pages
11h 36m
English
In this last example, we will discuss a technique that is not, strictly speaking, a functionality commonly provided by distributed tracing systems, but rather a side effect of the distributed context propagation mechanism that underlies all tracing instrumentation and can be relied upon in applications instrumented for tracing. We saw an example of this earlier when we discussed an implicit propagation of the frontend request ID used to tag transactions that were blocking in a mutex queue. In this section, we will discuss the use of metadata propagation for resource usage attribution.
Resource usage attribution is an important function in large organizations, especially for capacity planning and efficiency improvements. ...