Tracing with OpenTelemetry
Integrate OpenTelemetry to achieve distributed tracing, visualizing end-to-end request flows across services.
Microservices & The Tracing Need
Modern applications often consist of many small, interconnected services, known as microservices. This architecture offers flexibility but can make debugging complex interactions a real challenge.
When a user request travels through several services, pinpointing where a delay or error occurred becomes like finding a needle in a haystack.
Following the Request Path
Distributed tracing helps you visualize the entire journey of a request as it flows through different services in your system.
- It links all operations related to a single request.
- It shows the time taken by each part of the request.
- This helps identify performance bottlenecks and errors across service boundaries.
All lessons in this course
- Logging gRPC Interactions
- Tracing with OpenTelemetry
- Monitoring gRPC Metrics
- Health Checking & Readiness Probes