Skip to Main Content
Mastering Distributed Tracing
book

Mastering Distributed Tracing

by Yuri Shkuro
February 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
444 pages
11h 36m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Mastering Distributed Tracing

Exercise 6 – auto-instrumentation

In the previous exercises, we added a lot of manual instrumentation to our application. One may get the impression that it always takes so much work to instrument code for distributed tracing. In reality, things are a lot better thanks to a large amount of already-created, open source, vendor-neutral instrumentation for popular frameworks that exists in the OpenTracing project under its community contributions organization: https://github.com/opentracing-contrib/meta. In this exercise, we will explore some of those modules to minimize the amount of manual, boiler-plate instrumentation in the Hello application.

Open source instrumentation in Go

Due to its "no magic" design principle, with Go it is a bit tougher to ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Distributed Tracing in Practice

Distributed Tracing in Practice

Austin Parker, Daniel Spoonhower, Jonathan Mace, Ben Sigelman, Rebecca Isaacs
Kafka: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition

Kafka: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition

Gwen Shapira, Todd Palino, Rajini Sivaram, Krit Petty

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781788628464Supplemental Content