Distributed Tracing with OpenTelemetry

Distributed tracing is a method of tracking application requests as they flow from frontend devices to backend services and databases.

Developers can use distributed tracing to troubleshoot requests that exhibit high latency or errors. OpenTelemetry is a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs. It is the de facto open source standard. We use it to instrument, generate, collect, and export traces to DataDog