Distributed Tracing: Following a Request Across Microservices
A practical guide to distributed tracing as an architectural discipline — why single-service logging and metrics stop being sufficient once a request crosses many services, how a trace actually reconstructs a request's journey, trace analysis techniques for diagnosing latency and failures, and the specific propagation challenges microservice systems built from this series' REST, gRPC, and messaging guides need to solve.
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Problem Distributed Tracing Solves
