Tracing with Jaeger

Jaeger is an open source tool (https://jaegertracing.io) that recently graduated from the CNCF project. It provides distributed transaction monitoring, service dependency information, and span tracing using an open standard specification (https://github.com/opentracing/specification). Let's take a look at how to perform tracing with Jaeger:

  1. Open http://jaeger.istio.io and use admin/admin as the user ID and password.

If the curl command for driving traffic has stopped in the command-line window, start it again in order to send traffic to the productpage.

  1. Select the productpage.istio-lab service from the drop-down and click Find Traces:
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