10.1.2 · Skill in Product observability
Traces
Following a single request across services and components.
Distributed tracing shows where a request spent its time and where it failed. OpenTelemetry has become the common standard. Traces turn "the app is slow" into a specific slow query or call.
Resources
2- docsStart hereObservability primer ↗OpenTelemetry · 10 min
Logs, metrics and traces explained, and how they connect so you can answer questions you did not plan for.
- docsGo deeperSignals ↗OpenTelemetry · 7 min
The kinds of telemetry a service can emit, as defined by the open standard most tools now speak.
Tools
1- ToolOpen sourceOpenTelemetry
Open standard and SDKs for emitting traces, metrics and logs to any backend.