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Modern Distributed Tracing in .NET

You're reading from   Modern Distributed Tracing in .NET A practical guide to observability and performance analysis for microservices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837636136
Length 336 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Liudmila Molkova Liudmila Molkova
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Introducing Distributed Tracing
2. Chapter 1: Observability Needs of Modern Applications FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Native Monitoring in .NET 4. Chapter 3: The .NET Observability Ecosystem 5. Chapter 4: Low-Level Performance Analysis with Diagnostic Tools 6. Part 2: Instrumenting .NET Applications
7. Chapter 5: Configuration and Control Plane 8. Chapter 6: Tracing Your Code 9. Chapter 7: Adding Custom Metrics 10. Chapter 8: Writing Structured and Correlated Logs 11. Part 3: Observability for Common Cloud Scenarios
12. Chapter 9: Best Practices 13. Chapter 10: Tracing Network Calls 14. Chapter 11: Instrumenting Messaging Scenarios 15. Chapter 12: Instrumenting Database Calls 16. Part 4: Implementing Distributed Tracing in Your Organization
17. Chapter 13: Driving Change 18. Chapter 14: Creating Your Own Conventions 19. Chapter 15: Instrumenting Brownfield Applications 20. Assessments 21. Index 22. Other Books You May Enjoy

Exploring auto-generated telemetry

The meme service is now up and running. Feel free to upload your favorite memes and if you see any issues, use telemetry to debug them!

Debugging

If you try to upload something right after the service starts, you might get an error like the one shown in Figure 2.8. Let’s figure out why!

Figure 2.8 – Error from application with traceparent

Figure 2.8 – Error from application with traceparent

We can approach this investigation from two angles. The first is to use the traceparent shown on the page; the second is to filter the traces from the frontend based on the error status.
In any case, let’s go to Jaeger – our tracing backend running on http://localhost:16686/. We can search by Trace ID or filter by service and error, as shown in Figure 2.9:

Figure 2.9 – Find the trace in Jaeger by Trace ID (1) or with a combination of the service (2) and error (3)

Figure 2.9 – Find the trace in Jaeger by Trace ID (1) or with a combination of the service (2) and error (3)

If we open the trace, we’ll see that...

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