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D. R. HeffelfingerPayara Micro Revealedhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8161-1_9

9. Request Tracing

David R. Heffelfinger1  
(1)
Fairfax, VA, USA
 

A typical microservices architecture consists of several microservices. These services send output to a log file; traditionally, each service sends output to its own log file. When looking at log files across server instances, it is almost never trivial to follow a single trace of execution across our microservices; for example, let’s say we have two services, A and B, and that service A serves as a client for service B. Typically, we will see several calls to service B from service A in the logs, but it is seldom ...

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