Distributed Tracing in Go
Go Concurrency Patterns Series: ← Go Generics Patterns | Series Overview What is Distributed Tracing? Distributed tracing tracks requests as they flow through microservices, providing visibility into performance bottlenecks, service dependencies, and error propagation in distributed systems. Key Concepts: Trace: End-to-end journey of a request across services Span: Single unit of work within a trace Context Propagation: Carrying trace information across boundaries Sampling: Controlling which traces to collect Why OpenTelemetry? OpenTelemetry (OTel) is the industry standard for observability: ...