DevOps Foundations: Distributed Tracing

Distributed tracing is a cutting edge new practice for application performance analysis. Increasingly, organizations are adopting microservice architectures, which make things much easier for developers, but can result in a very complex set of services. For developers who have to optimize the performance in these environments, tools and techniques are needed to trace how requests are handled between services. In this course, learn about the key technology-related challenges driving the need for distributed tracing, how to use and configure popular tools like Jaeger and Zipkin, how to integrate with the broader monitoring ecosystem, and more.

Learning objectives
Tracing for observability
Tracing libraries and agents
Tracing app code
Viewing an app trace on Zipkin and Jaeger
Adding metadata to your traces
Seeing the tags and error event
Tracing database and message queue calls
Tracing web calls
Tracing server-side and end-to-end
Adding metadata to your traces
Persisting trace data for long term analysis
Integrating trace data
Leveraging monitoring systems