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Mastering Spring Cloud
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Mastering Spring Cloud

by Piotr Mińkowski
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
432 pages
10h 38m
English
Packt Publishing
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Distributed tracing with Sleuth

Another one of Spring Cloud's essential functionalities is distributed tracing. It is implemented in the Spring Cloud Sleuth library. Its primary purpose is to associate subsequent requests dispatched between different microservices under processing single input request. As in most cases, these are HTTP requests that implement tracing mechanisms based on HTTP headers. The implementation is built over Slf4j and MDC. Slf4j provides facade and abstraction for specific logging frameworks such as logback, log4j, or java.util.logging. MDC or mapped diagnostic context in full, is a solution for distinguishing log output from different sources and enriching them with additional information that could be not available ...

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