Distributed Tracing: A Guide for Microservices and More

In distributed systems, tracing shows all the relationships across microservices. Visibility into those relationships gives you the observability to understand how your code is behaving in production. Sadly, tracing has the reputation that it's difficult to instrument, implement, and decipher.

Honeycomb Beelines put tracing in reach

In this whitepaper, we cover:

• a brief history of tracing
• what traces are and what they contain
• how Honeycomb Beelines make instrumenting traces easy