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In This Series:
- Distributed Tracing With Jaeger (this article)
- Simplifying the Setup With Tye (coming soon)
Modern microservices applications consist of many services deployed on various hosts such as Kubernetes, AWS ECS, and Azure App Services or serverless compute services such as AWS Lambda and Azure Functions. One of the key challenges of microservices is the reduced visibility of requests that span multiple services. In distributed systems that perform various operations such as database queries, publish and consume messages, and trigger jobs, how would you quickly find issues and monitor the behavior of services? The answer to the perplexing problem is Distributed Tracing.
Distributed Tracing, Open Tracing, and Jaeger
Distributed Tracing is the capability of a tracing solution that you can use to track a request across multiple services. The tracing solutions use one or more correlation IDs to collate the request traces and store the traces, which are structured log events across different services, in a central database.
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