Everything You Wanted to Know About Distributed Tracing

This course introduces distributed tracing for microservices, explaining trace models, context propagation, tags, logs, instrumentation, and OpenTelemetry. It also covers implementation patterns and using tracing to diagnose issues in production.

Syllabus

Introduction
Dont take everything literal
A bit of history
Traditional monitoring tools
What is distributed tracing
What is a trace
Whats inside a trace
Context Propagation
Tags Logs
What can tracing help me
What services did I request faster
What occurred in each service for given requests
Why isnt everyone using it
Lack of education
Different implementations
OpenTelemetry
What is OpenTelemetry
Backwards Compatibility
Instrumentation
How to get involved
middleware
Example
Benefits