One of the standards in distributed tracing is OpenTracing proposed by the authors of Jaeger. Jaeger is a tracer built for cloud-native applications. It addresses the problems of monitoring distributed transactions and propagating the tracing context. It's useful for the following purposes:
- Performance or latency optimization
- Performing a root cause analysis
- Analyzing the inter-service dependencies
OpenTracing is an open standard presenting an API that is independent of the tracer used. This means that when your application is instrumented using OpenTracing, you avoid lock-in to one particular vendor. If, at some point, you decide to switch from Jaeger to Zipkin, DataDog, or any other compatible tracer, you won't have to modify the entire instrumentation code.
There are many client libraries compatible with OpenTracing. You can also find many resources, including tutorials and articles that explain how to implement the API for your needs. OpenTracing...
