Technical requirements

The code for this chapter is available in this book’s repository on GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Modern-Distributed-Tracing-in-.NET/tree/main/chapter4. It consists of the following components:

• The issues application, which contains examples of performance issues
• loadgenerator, which is a tool that generates load to reproduce problems

To run samples and perform analysis, we’ll need the following tools:

• .NET SDK 7.0 or later.
• The .NET dotnet-trace, dotnet-stack, and dotnet-dump diagnostics tools. Please install each of them with dotnet tool install –global dotnet-<tool>.
• Docker and docker-compose.

To run the samples in this chapter, start the observability stack, which consists of Jaeger, Prometheus, and the OpenTelemetry collector, with docker-compose up.

Make sure that you start the issues app in the Release configuration – for example, by calling dotnet run -c Release...