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Mastering Distributed Tracing
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Mastering Distributed Tracing

by Yuri Shkuro
February 2019
Intermediate to advanced
444 pages
11h 36m
English
Packt Publishing
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Summary

Deploying a tracing system is not just a matter of instrumenting your code or running a tracing backend. In this chapter, we discussed five problem areas that must be addressed in order to "have a good time" when collecting traces, and being able to analyze your system behavior and performance. The areas are analyzing, recording, federating, describing, and correlating transactions.

Most existing tracing systems cover all those areas, but in their own ways, which are incompatible with other tracing systems. This limits interoperability, which is especially problematic when using managed cloud services. There are four standardization projects that exist in the industry and they are trying to address different problem areas. We reviewed the ...

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781788628464