Spring 5.0 Projects

Distributed tracing service

In the microservice architecture, the application flow may pass through a chain of multiple service calls to execute a single business use case. Manually tracing the activities with the logs of multiple microservices is not an efficient solution. We may not get exactly what we want out of it. It is important to understand what is happening between the series of service call. This is quite helpful in debugging if an issue arises. Spring Cloud provides an effective way to trace the application flow in a distributed system through Spring Cloud Sleuth. It collects the call tracking data, which can be exported to Zipkin—another tool for visualizing the call trace.