Using OpenTracing for distributed tracing

OpenTracing is an open standard for distributed tracing that provides a vendor-neutral API and instrumentation for distributed systems. In OpenTracing, a trace tells the story of a transaction or workflow as it propagates through a distributed system. The concept of the trace borrows a tool from the scientific community called a directed acyclic graph (DAG), which stages the parts of a process from a clear start to a clear end.

Distributed tracing is a way to track a single request and log a single request as it crosses through all of the services in our infrastructure. It can help us understand how long each service takes to process the request and identify bottlenecks in our system. It can also help us identify which service is causing an issue when something goes wrong.

Using OpenTracing for distributed tracing can help us gain visibility into our distributed system and understand how requests are flowing through it. It can also help...