Distributed Tracing
In plain terms
Tracking a request as it flows through many services.
Going deeper
Distributed tracing follows a single request across microservices, recording timing at each hop to reveal bottlenecks and failures. It stitches together a request's journey.
Under the hood
Trace IDs and spans propagate through services; essential for debugging latency in microservices.
Examples
Jaeger, Zipkin, OpenTelemetry, microservice debugging, latency analysis.
Think of it like...
Like a package tracking number showing every facility a parcel passed through.