Distributed Tracing in Practice

Since most applications today are distributed in some fashion, monitoring their health and performance requires a new approach. Enter distributed tracing, a method of profiling and monitoring distributed applications, such as microservices and serverless.

There's just one problem: distributed tracing can be hard. But it doesn't have to be. In this book, Distributed tracing experts from Lightstep, Google, and Twitter, and the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems share ways to more effectively build, operate, and understand your software.

What you'll learn

The components of a distributed tracing deployment: instrumentation, data collection, and analysis
Best practices for instrumentation: methods for generating trace data from your services
How to deal with (or avoid) overhead using sampling and other techniques
How to use distributed tracing to improve system performance and to resolve regressions quickly