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As distributed systems become more complex and dynamic, their observability needs to grow to aid the development of holistic solutions for performance or usage analysis and debugging. Distributed tracing brings structure, correlation, causation, and consistency to your telemetry, thus allowing you to answer arbitrary questions about your system and creating a foundation for observability vendors to build visualizations and analytics. Modern Distributed Tracing in .NET is your comprehensive guide to observability that focuses on tracing and performance analysis using a combination of telemetry signals and diagnostic tools. You'll begin by learning how to instrument your apps automatically as well as manually in a vendor-neutral way. Next, you’ll explore how to produce useful traces and metrics for typical cloud patterns and get insights into your system and investigate functional, configurational, and performance issues. The book is filled with instrumentation examples that help you grasp how to enrich auto-generated telemetry or produce your own to get the level of detail your system needs, along with controlling your costs with sampling, aggregation, and verbosity. By the end of this book, you'll be ready to adopt and leverage tracing and other observability signals and tools and tailor them to your needs as your system evolves.

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This book is for software developers, architects, and systems operators running .NET services who want to use modern observability tools and standards and take a holistic approach to performance analysis and end-to-end debugging. Software testers and support engineers will also find this book useful. Basic knowledge of the C# programming language and .NET platform is assumed to grasp the examples of manual instrumentation, but it is not necessary.

What you will learn

Understand the core concepts of distributed tracing and observability

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Raj Sep 14, 2023

This book serves as a hands-on guide for software developers, architects, and operators eager to harness contemporary observability tools and standards in .NET environments. Liudmila lends her seasoned expertise on distributed tracing across a spectrum of programming languages, offering valuable insights into the effective use of OpenTelemetry—a vendor-neutral telemetry platform—for streamlined telemetry collection.The book is thorough in its treatment of telemetry within .NET applications, concentrating specifically on distributed tracing and performance analysis. It kicks off with an incisive overview of the challenges and solutions in the realm of observability. From there, it explores the native monitoring features available in modern .NET applications, and demonstrates how to employ OpenTelemetry for instrumenting common cloud architecture elements like network calls, messaging, and database interactions. The book confidently addresses both the managerial and technological dimensions essential for integrating and expanding observability in pre-existing infrastructures.The writing is clear and well-structured, complemented by a range of educational materials: code snippets, diagrams, screenshots, as well as practical tips, insightful questions, and recommendations for further reading. Liudmila offers pragmatic advice on selecting the appropriate telemetry signals, controlling operational costs, adhering to best practices, crafting custom conventions, leading organizational change, and thoroughly testing your instrumentation. Her deep-rooted understanding of both .NET and OpenTelemetry shines through, elucidating how these technologies synergize to enable effective observability.I wholeheartedly recommend this book to anyone interested in adopting modern tools and standards for monitoring and debugging .NET applications. It's a well-crafted, comprehensive resource that deftly balances theory and practice. My rating is a solid 5 out of 5 stars. Whether you're a novice or a seasoned developer looking to refresh your understanding of .NET observability, this book has something valuable to offer.

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Rohit Jul 31, 2023

As a software engineer navigating the constantly evolving world of distributed systems, I found "Modern Distributed Tracing in .NET" to be a valuable companion. This guide enhances your understanding of observability and distributed tracing. The author's hands-on experience in implementing observability across various SDKs and active contributions to the OpenTelemetry Community are evident, making the book even more credible.The book begins by addressing the challenges presented by modern microservices and distributed systems. It emphasizes the significance of robust observability tools while discussing the limitations of older tracing solutions. Notably, the book offers practical insights into leveraging observability in common cloud scenarios and provides valuable guidance on instrumenting messaging and database calls."If you are working on improving the observability of your applications in distributed environments, "Modern Distributed Tracing in .NET" is undoubtedly a must-have resource to have.

Miguel Angel Teheran Oct 02, 2023

I love this book and there are the reasons:1. This books explain briefly how to work with Logging with .NET and Observability but not taking too much. it moves quickly to practical things and advanced topics.2. The book contains information about OpenTelemetry this is a new standard for logging across different technologies or services in Microservices architecture.3. It explain how to use external tools to read and analyze the logging result in our applications.4. It contains some scenarios where we can use cloud services for monitoring and get metrics for our logs.

i Jul 30, 2023

I got the book to get a primer on the state of the art in tracing, monitoring, and debugging the distributed systems.The book is well written: understandable someone who's not domain expert while not compromising on the depth of the discussions.The examples are fun to follow, I ran a few of them with no issues.Overall, I enjoyed reading it end-to-end, highly recommend.

Johannes Tax Jul 14, 2023

Against what the title suggests, this book isn’t just about Distributed Tracing. Instead, it puts Distributed Tracing into the context of the overall observability ecosystem in .NET, including logging, metrics, and profiling. This holistic view is helpful for pragmatic and result-oriented engineers who want to gain the optimal value of observability in general and Distributed Tracing in particular.There’s a lot in this book: tracing, logging, metrics, profiling; instrumenting network calls, messaging scenarios, databases; OpenTelemetry and semantic conventions. While it is very dense, the connection to real-world scenarios is never lost, and every section offers insights that are useful for .NET programmers facing observability challenges.The first part of the book offers an introduction to Distributed Tracing and its concepts, giving a theoretical foundation and explaining how Distributed Tracing is embedded into the .NET ecosystem. The second part gives lots of valuable practical insights on instrumenting .NET applications and puts traces into a wider context with logs, metrics, and profiling. The third part goes into much detail about particular observability use cases, while the fourth part highlights challenges and strategies for implementing good observability practices in an organization.I consider this book a reference when it comes to the implementation of state-of-the-art observability practices in .NET applications, and I highly recommend it to anybody working with .NET microservices.The author is a thought leader in this space and doesn’t hesitate to reference cutting-edge and still experimental developments in this area. With this in mind, I encourage readers to take this book as a starting point but to look out for developments and improvements in specific areas, as observability practices and standards are constantly evolving. Nevertheless, for .NET developers and enthusiasts, there’s no better start and guide to your observability journey than this book.

Modern Distributed Tracing in .NET: A practical guide to observability and performance analysis for microservices

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