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Distributed Tracing

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What is Distributed Tracing?

Distributed tracing follows an individual request as it crosses services, processes and asynchronous boundaries. This profile connects the concept to KBY's practical engineering guidance.

Instrumentation creates spans linked by trace and parent identifiers, recording timing, status and selected attributes for each operation. Sampling and context propagation make traces useful at scale while controlling cost and protecting sensitive data.

Primary purpose

Diagnose latency and failures across distributed application paths.

Typical environments
Cloud-native architecturesMicroservices
Typical use cases
  • Diagnosing latency across microservices
  • Root cause analysis
  • Mapping service dependencies
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