The currently available techniques and tools for software testing and troubleshooting are being found obsolete and incompetent, especially for microservice-based applications. As we move from the monolithic era to the promising microservices era, there is a need for a bunch of versatile tools for checking services in isolation as well as microservice-centric applications in totality. As individual services cannot give the big picture, the new-generation testing and debugging tools have to have the distinct capability to do the same at the application level. That is, the tools must present the complete picture of application performance along with how the application delivers its functionality.
Therefore, this pattern recommends the leverage of a distributed tracing tool, which can track every request and capture the associated data as it scans through...