In microservices architectures, a single request traverses multiple services. Without distributed tracing, debugging is impossible—”the request failed” tells you nothing about which service failed or why. This guide covers tracing fundamentals, OpenTelemetry implementation, and visualization with Jaeger and Zipkin. Tracing Concepts Trace: End-to-end request journey Span: Single operation (HTTP call, database query) Context: Trace ID […]
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