Distributed Tracing in Practice: Instrumenting, Analyzing, and Debugging Microservices

Since most applications today are distributed in some fashion, monitoring their health and performance requires a new approach. Enter distributed tracing, a method of profiling and monitoring distributed applications—particularly those that use microservice architectures. There’s just one problem: distributed tracing can be hard. But it doesn’t have to be.

With this guide, you’ll learn what distributed tracing is and how to use it to understand the performance and operation of your softwa...