Distributed tracing

A step of the Cloud application tree on Gradus, in the Observability area: Logs, metrics, traces, alerts.

Add distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry so a single request can be followed across every service it touches.

Usually comes after: Metrics.

Leads to: Alerting, Cost monitoring.

Prompt for your AI assistant

Instrument the application with OpenTelemetry distributed tracing, propagate trace context across service boundaries and export spans to a collector.

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