Chapter 8: Distributed Tracing

In this chapter we look at distributed tracing and how it can help us understand and troubleshoot microservices. You will use Jaeger to troubleshoot a simple app.

1. What Distributed Tracing is and why it's important
2. Seeing Distributed Tracing in action for troubleshooting
3. Considerations on when to use Distributed Tracing
4. How to go about selecting a Distributed Tracing solution

See also:

• Code snippets for Chapter 8
• Further reading