Chapter 6. Tracing Standards and Ecosystem
In the microservices-ruled world, end-to-end tracing is no longer a "nice-to-have" feature, but "table stakes" for understanding modern cloud-native applications. In Chapter 4, Instrumentation Basics with OpenTracing, we saw an example of what it takes to manually instrument a simple "Hello, world!" application for distributed tracing. If, after reading it, you were left with the impression, "oh, that is a lot of work," then it achieved one of its goals. Developing and deploying instrumentation in order to get high-quality tracing data is absolutely the largest, but not the only, challenge of rolling out ...
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