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Distributed tracing is a critical component for monitoring individual requests as they travel through a service mesh. By tracking how requests propagate across various services, developers can gain valuable insights into service behavior, detect interdependencies, and quickly identify latency issues.
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Istio leverages Envoy proxies to integrate distributed tracing seamlessly within a service mesh. It supports a variety of tracing systems—such as Zipkin, Jaeger, Lightstep, and Datadog—to fit different monitoring needs. In this lesson, we focus on how to use Jaeger for tracing in an Istio-managed environment.
Distributed tracing with Jaeger not only helps in identifying performance bottlenecks but also enhances the observability of complex microservice architectures.
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