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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Distributed Tracing (But Were Afraid to Ask)

Distributed tracing, in short, is a way to output a normalized set of structured logs from applications which include contextual information allowing developers to view an end-to-end request. In this whitepaper, Austin Parker, Director of Open Source at Honecomb, teaches you:

  • The history of tracing
  • Standardizing on distributed tracing
  • Where tracing is in 2025
  • Why tracing is fundamental to OpenTelemtry
  • How traces are made
  • Unifying your telemetry with OpenTelemetry
  • and more!

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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Distributed Tracing (But Were Afraid to Ask)

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