Tracing

Contents

• Tracing
  • Why Tracing is required
  • What Tracing addresses
  • Implementation
  • Gitlab Integration

Why Tracing is required

As on-the-ground microservice practitioners are quickly realizing, the majority of operational problems that arise when moving to a distributed architecture are ultimately grounded in two areas: networking and observability. It is simply an orders of magnitude larger problem to network and debug a set of intertwined distributed services versus a single monolithic application.

What Tracing addresses

• Distributed transaction monitoring
• Performance and latency optimization
• Root cause analysis
• Service dependency analysis
• Distributed context propagation

Implementation

Implementation of tracing (Opentracing - Jaegar) can be found in,

https://gitlab.ebi.ac.uk/soumyadip/opentracing-sample-python/

Gitlab Integration

Gitlab Integration information can be found at,

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/operations/tracing.html