Distributed Tracing is the most useful tool you’ve never heard of for debugging and understanding your microservices.

Having spent one too many evenings doing stack trace detective work, I wanted another way to debug issues. So I set up a Distributed Tracing server. It enables me to uncover latency and inefficiency, pinpoint bugs and, in general, make sense of the chaos that is microservices.

In this talk I’ll introduce the Opentracing standard, demonstrate the benefits of distributed tracing and how to get started with it. I will cover basic uses, best practices as well as some pitfalls to avoid.