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Module 17 · Observability · Lesson 5 of 7

Distributed tracing

TODO: one-sentence summary of Distributed tracing.

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Why it matters

Explain the problem distributed tracing solves and where it shows up in production systems.

The idea

The core mechanism, with one diagram.

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