Distributed Tracing FAQ
summary
A year of instrumentation yields a concrete workflow: an orchestrator that provisions AWS resources is traced end-to-end, the AWS SDK calls carry span context and logged request/response bodies, traces go to OpenTracing and OpenCensus libraries and are exported to Jaeger Zipkin or an InfluxDB-backed pipeline, sampling reduces cardinality so storage stays practical, and observed performance overhead is negligible while request IDs let support pull exact traces for debugging.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:08Open Source Monitoring Tools
- 2:55Who does distributed tracing
- 4:40What is a trace
- 9:54How do I follow our trace
- 18:13How much tracing infrastructure looks like
- 18:40Can I have tracing infrastructure on pram
- 19:19Can I outsource tracing infrastructure
- 20:09Can I store traces everywhere
- 21:38Demo
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