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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 10. Distributed Context Propagation

Distributed Context Propagation

We discussed in Chapter 3, Distributed Tracing Fundamentals, that most tracing systems today use causal metadata propagation, also known as distributed context propagation, as the fundamental substrate for associating tracing events with individual executions. Unlike the trace data collection, the context propagation mechanism is always on for 100% of requests, regardless of the sampling decisions. In Chapter 4, Instrumentation Basics with OpenTracing, and Chapter 5, Instrumentation of Asynchronous Applications, we have seen that tracing instrumentation APIs, like the OpenTracing APIs, include primitives ...

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ISBN: 9781788628464Supplemental Content