Having standard telemetry being produced by our services out of the box goes a long way toward enabling observability tooling to extract valuable insights that help us monitor and debug our systems in production. However, it’d be virtually impossible to find a modern software system that works in complete isolation, with no external dependencies needed to fulfill a given operation. Having access to more data does not imply observability. To effectively enable observability, we need context to bind all ...
5. Context, Baggage, and Propagators
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