Distributed tracing using Opentelemetry

This code demonstrates the distributed tracing capabilties of the Opentlemetry standard.

To know more about the standard please visit this link.

Commands

make serve

This will make the /users path available at localhost:8000, it will also make the Jaeger UI available at localhost:5000.

The /users path will generate traces which can be observed in the UI.

The traces will be listed under service names fetch-user-service and fetch-user-detail-service respectively.

Example of illustration

Above are traces of two separate services, fetch-user-service and fetch-user-detail-service. However the trace of request can be visualized as one.

fetch-user-service makes a call to fetch-user-detail-service hence propogating the trace.