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Mastering Distributed Tracing
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Mastering Distributed Tracing

by Yuri Shkuro
February 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
444 pages
11h 36m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 7. Tracing with Service Meshes

Tracing with Service Meshes

In previous chapters, we discussed multiple methods of extracting tracing data from applications, either by adding instrumentation directly to the application code, or enabling the instrumentation dynamically at runtime through configuration. I also mentioned agent-based instrumentation, often provided by commercial APM vendors, which works by injecting trace points externally into the customer's program, using techniques such as monkey-patching and bytecode manipulation. All these methods can be classified as white-box instrumentation, since they all require modification of the application's code, either explicitly ...

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