"These and other clichés will be available to you all for one more day of training with me."
— Col. O'Neill, Stargate SG-1
We have arrived at the last part of this book. Hopefully, by now you are convinced that end-to-end tracing is an invaluable and must-have tool in your arsenal for monitoring and managing the performance of complex distributed systems. Parts II and III of this book are primarily addressed to the users of distributed tracing, covering topics from how to instrument applications, to how to use tracing data to gain insights into system behavior and perform root cause analysis.
In a large organization, someone needs to be in charge of actually deploying and maintaining tracing infrastructure, so that the users can reap the benefits. Often, this is the job of a dedicated tracing team, or a larger observability team, or an even larger (in scope, not necessarily in size) infrastructure team. No matter how it is named or structured...