Distributed Tracing Basics

Summary

Tracking a single request as it flows through multiple services, capturing timing at each hop — essential for diagnosing latency issues in microservice or serverless architectures where logs alone can't show the full picture.

• 1Read a conceptual explanation of how a trace ID propagates across service calls.
• 2Explore a tracing tool's UI (via a demo) to see a sample distributed trace.
• 3Learn why OpenTelemetry has become the standard, vendor-neutral way to instrument applications for tracing.