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what is tracing?

• manigandham 9y ago
  In this context, it's the network-wide version of a stack trace. Instead of just method calls in a process, you take a top-level (HTTP) request and see all the various upstream service calls and their internal logic involved in completing that request. Useful for micro/multi-service based architectures but you can trace anything because it's a standard output format.
  • pritianka 9y ago
    I have to say, you described tracing really well! I work on the OpenTracing project [1] (and at LightStep) and have been describing tracing to people for a while and your explanation is way better haha :-) [1] opentracing.io
• fnord123 9y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracing_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracing_(software)