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Mastering Distributed Tracing

By : Yuri Shkuro
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Mastering Distributed Tracing

By: Yuri Shkuro

Overview of this book

Mastering Distributed Tracing will equip you to operate and enhance your own tracing infrastructure. Through practical exercises and code examples, you will learn how end-to-end tracing can be used as a powerful application performance management and comprehension tool. The rise of Internet-scale companies, like Google and Amazon, ushered in a new era of distributed systems operating on thousands of nodes across multiple data centers. Microservices increased that complexity, often exponentially. It is harder to debug these systems, track down failures, detect bottlenecks, or even simply understand what is going on. Distributed tracing focuses on solving these problems for complex distributed systems. Today, tracing standards have developed and we have much faster systems, making instrumentation less intrusive and data more valuable. Yuri Shkuro, the creator of Jaeger, a popular open-source distributed tracing system, delivers end-to-end coverage of the field in Mastering Distributed Tracing. Review the history and theoretical foundations of tracing; solve the data gathering problem through code instrumentation, with open standards like OpenTracing, W3C Trace Context, and OpenCensus; and discuss the benefits and applications of a distributed tracing infrastructure for understanding, and profiling, complex systems.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Mastering Distributed Tracing
Contributors
Preface
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Afterword
Index

Prerequisites


Since we are talking about integrating tracing with logs and metrics, we will run the backends for all three of these monitoring tools:

  • Jaeger for traces

  • Prometheus for metrics

  • The ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) for logs

This section provides instructions on setting up the environment to run the Hello application.

Project source code

The code can be found in the Chapter11 directory of the book's source code repository on GitHub. Please refer to Chapter 4, Instrumentation Basics with OpenTracing, for instructions on how to download it, then switch to the Chapter11 directory, from which all example code can be run.

The source code of the application is organized in the following structure:

Mastering-Distributed-Tracing/
  Chapter11/
    exercise1/
      client/
      formatter/
      hello/
      lib/
    elasticsearch/
    kibana/
    logstash/
    prometheus/
    docker-compose.yml    pom.xml

The application is composed of two microservices, hello and formatter, and a client...