Distributed log tracing
Distributed tracing is the method of monitoring logs and tracing issues in a microservices application. Developers and DevOps engineers both rely on logs to follow the path of a request as it travels through the various systems and checkpoints and then attempts to ascertain the point of failure. The more robust the logging, the easier it will be for them to pinpoint weak points, bugs, and bottlenecks in the application.
Because microservices are designed to be autonomous and scale independently, it is common to have multiple instances of the service running simultaneously, which further complicates the request tracing process. We now need to backtrack which instance of the service handled the request, leading to even more complex tracing situations.
Distributed tracing is a technique that is geared toward solving these problems. It refers to a diagnostic methodology behind observing requests as they make their way through distributed systems. Each trace...
