Mastering Distributed Tracing

Summary

In this chapter, we discussed many aspects of operating the tracing backend, from architecture and deployment choices to monitoring, troubleshooting, and resiliency measures. I intentionally kept the discussion at a slightly abstract level because I feel the concrete details about configuring and deploying Jaeger are probably going to become quickly outdated and therefore are better left for Jaeger documentation. Instead, I tried to only use Jaeger as an illustration of general principles that will be useful to anyone deploying and operating a tracing infrastructure, whether it is Jaeger or any other competing solution.