Why it matters

Agent tracing reveals latency source. OTel is the standard.

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The architecture

Instrument spans.

Propagate context.

View in Jaeger.

Agent distributed tracingSpansper operationPropagate contexttrace-id headerViewJaeger, Tempo, DDOpenTelemetry standard; W3C Trace Context propagation
Agent distributed tracing.
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How it works end to end

OpenTelemetry SDK.

W3C Trace Context.

Jaeger or Tempo.