Mastering Distributed Tracing

Service graphs

You have seen examples of the service graphs in previous chapters, some generated by Jaeger, and others generated by the service mesh Istio. There are other open source tools, such as Weaveworks Scope [2] and Kiali [3], that can provide similar service graphs by integrating with other infrastructure components, like service meshes, or simply by sniffing network connections and traffic. These graphs can be extremely useful for quickly grasping the architecture of the system. They are often annotated with additional monitoring signals, such as the throughput of the individual edges (requests per second), latency percentiles, error counts, and other golden signals indicating the health or performance of a service. Various visualization ...