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Spring Boot 4 Microservices & REST APIs · Lesson

Distributed Tracing with Zipkin

Integrate Zipkin for end-to-end distributed tracing across microservices to debug complex interactions.

The Microservice Debugging Maze

In a microservices architecture, a single user request might travel through many different services. When something goes wrong, it's like finding a needle in a haystack!

Traditional logging only shows what happened within one service. We need a way to see the entire journey.

What is Distributed Tracing?

Distributed tracing is a technique to monitor and observe requests as they flow through different components of a distributed system.

  • It helps you understand how services interact.
  • It pinpoints performance bottlenecks.
  • It makes debugging across service boundaries much easier.

All lessons in this course

  1. Circuit Breakers with Resilience4j
  2. Implementing Fallbacks and Timeouts
  3. Distributed Tracing with Zipkin
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