Introduction to Distributed Tracing
Understand how distributed tracing helps visualize requests flowing across multiple services to pinpoint latency and errors.
Understand Distributed Tracing
In modern applications, especially those built with microservices, a single user request can travel through many different services. Distributed tracing is a technique that helps you follow a request's journey across these services.
It's like giving each request a unique ID and tracking its path, step-by-step, no matter how many services it touches.
Why We Need Tracing
Imagine a website where clicking a button involves your browser, a frontend service, an API gateway, an authentication service, a product database, and a recommendation engine. If something goes wrong, or it's slow, how do you know where the problem is?
Traditional logging often falls short here. Tracing gives you a holistic view of the entire transaction, making it easier to pinpoint issues.
All lessons in this course
- Introduction to Distributed Tracing
- Leveraging Tracing Tools (e.g., OpenTelemetry)
- Debugging Microservices Architectures
- Correlating Traces, Logs, and Metrics