Leveraging Tracing Tools (e.g., OpenTelemetry)
Gain hands-on experience with popular distributed tracing tools and standards like OpenTelemetry for effective monitoring.
Tracing Tools Introduction
In distributed systems, a single user request often touches many services. Understanding its journey is vital for debugging.
Manual logging across services becomes a nightmare. This is where specialized tracing tools come in, automating the collection and visualization of these request paths.
Meet OpenTelemetry (OTel)
OpenTelemetry (OTel) is a vendor-neutral, open-source set of APIs, SDKs, and tools.
- It's designed to standardize how you collect telemetry data: traces, metrics, and logs.
- For tracing, OTel helps you instrument your applications to generate and export trace data to a backend of your choice.
All lessons in this course
- Introduction to Distributed Tracing
- Leveraging Tracing Tools (e.g., OpenTelemetry)
- Debugging Microservices Architectures
- Correlating Traces, Logs, and Metrics