Chapter 6. Tracing Standards and Ecosystem
In the microservices-ruled world, end-to-end tracing is no longer a "nice-to-have" feature, but "table stakes" for understanding modern cloud-native applications. In Chapter 4, Instrumentation Basics with OpenTracing, we saw an example of what it takes to manually instrument a simple "Hello, world!" application for distributed tracing. If, after reading it, you were left with the impression, "oh, that is a lot of work," then it achieved one of its goals. Developing and deploying instrumentation in order to get high-quality tracing data is absolutely the largest, but not the only, challenge of rolling out a distributed tracing solution in an organization. In Chapter 13, Implementing Tracing in Large Organizations, we will review some practical techniques for making the process easier from an organizational point of view.
In this chapter, we will discuss:
- Open source projects aiming to...
