DZone

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

This is an article from DZone's 2022 Performance and Site Reliability Trend Report. For more: Read the Report. Distributed tracing, as the name suggests, is a method of tracking requests as it flows through distributed applications. Along with logs and metrics, distributed tracing makes up the three pillars of observability. While all three signals are important to determine the health of the overall system, distributed tracing has seen significant growth and adoption in recent years.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

This is an article from DZone's 2022 Performance and Site Reliability Trend Report. For more: Read the Report. In the past few years, the complexity of systems architectures drastically increased, especially in distributed, microservices-based architectures. It is extremely hard and, in most cases, inefficient to debug and watch logs, particularly when we have hundreds or even thousands of microservices or modules.

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