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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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Performance analysis

Using tracing data for application performance analysis is the classic use case of distributed tracing. Different aspects of application performance can be investigated via tracing:

  • Availability: Is the application responding to end user queries? When the application is not responding to end users, or in other words we are in an outage situation, tracing can be used to pinpoint the location in a complex architecture where things go wrong.
  • Correctness: Does the application provide accurate answers? For example, if you are trying to call a car in the middle of New York City using a ride-sharing mobile app and the system responds with an expected time of arrival of 55 minutes, the correctness of that response is suspicious. Perhaps ...
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ISBN: 9781788628464Supplemental Content