Anatomy of distributed tracing
The following diagram shows a typical organization of distributed tracing systems, built around metadata propagation. The microservices or components of a distributed application are instrumented with trace points that observe the execution of a request. The trace points record causality and profiling information about the request and pass it to the tracing system through calls to a Tracing API, which may depend on the specific tracing backend or be vendor neutral, like the OpenTracing API [11] that we will discuss in Chapter 4, Instrumentation Basics with OpenTracing.
Figure 3.4: Anatomy of distributed tracing
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