Practical OpenTelemetry: Adopting Open Observability Standards Across Your Organization

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D. Gomez BlancoPractical OpenTelemetryhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9075-0_6

6. Tracing

Daniel Gomez Blanco¹  

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Edinburgh, UK

 

Considering what has been discussed in previous chapters, it should be evident that telemetry context must be a requirement to implement observability. It is of no surprise that, along with context and propagation, tracing became the main component to focus on in order to achieve the first 1.x release of OpenTelemetry, as it standardizes how causally related operations are represented within a distributed transaction. Although Chapter 5 may have felt slightly abstract, the concepts of context, scope, and propagation will start ...