Chapter 14. Under the Hood of a Distributed Tracing System

Under the Hood of a Distributed Tracing System

This last chapter is aimed at engineers or DevOps people tasked with deploying and operating a distributed tracing backend in their organization. Since my own experience is mostly related to Jaeger, I will be using it as an example. I will try to avoid focusing on very specific details of Jaeger configurations, since they may change after the book is published while the project continues evolving. Instead, I will use them to illustrate the general principles and the decisions you need to make when deploying a tracing platform. Many of the topics that we will discuss apply equally well to ...

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