Level 4: Reliability, security & cloud · L4.2 Observability
Distributed tracing and OpenTelemetry
Explain spans, context propagation and sampling.
12 min · Pro
What you take away
- A span is one timed operation; a trace is the tree of spans that share a trace id across every service a request touched.
And 3 more inside the class, in Pro.
How the class is laid out
- The problem
- Reading a waterfall
- Propagation is the work
- Sampling: decide late if you can
- Check your understanding