Chapter 3. Distributed Tracing Fundamentals
Distributed tracing, also known as end-to-end or workflow-centric tracing, is a family of techniques that aim to capture the detailed execution of causally-related activities, performed by the components of a distributed system. Unlike the traditional code profilers or host-level tracing tools, such as dtrace [1], end-to-end tracing is primarily focused on profiling the individual executions cooperatively performed by many different processes, usually running on many different hosts, which is typical of modern, cloud-native, microservices-based applications.
In the previous chapter, we saw a tracing system ...
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