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SkillArea overview
Reference · liveskill-area:distributed-tracing
Distributed Tracing overview
End-to-end request tracing across distributed systems — trace context propagation, span collection, trace sampling strategies, and trace analysis for latency debugging. Covers OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Zipkin, and vendor-specific tracing platforms.
Attributes
displayName
Distributed Tracing
description
End-to-end request tracing across distributed systems — trace context
propagation, span collection, trace sampling strategies, and trace
analysis for latency debugging. Covers OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Zipkin,
and vendor-specific tracing platforms.
domains
expertiseLevels
- intermediate
- expert
Outgoing edges
applies_to1
- specialization:observability·Specialization
Incoming edges
lib_requires_skill_area5
- lib-agent:software-architecture--observability-architect·LibraryAgentobservability-architect
- lib-process:performance-optimization--distributed-tracing-implementation·LibraryProcessspecializations/performance-optimization/distributed-tracing-implementation
- lib-process:software-architecture--observability-implementation·LibraryProcessobservability-implementation
- lib-skill:sdk-platform-development--opentelemetry-integrator·LibrarySkillopentelemetry-integrator
- lib-skill:software-architecture--tracing-schema-generator·LibrarySkilltracing-schema-generator
prerequisite_for_learning3
- skill-area:distributed-tracing-design·SkillAreaDistributed Tracing Design
- skill-area:distributed-tracing-instrumentation·SkillAreaDistributed Tracing Instrumentation
- skill-area:observability-instrumentation·SkillAreaObservability Instrumentation
requires_skill_area4
- stack-profile:observability-stack·StackProfileObservability Stack (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo)
- stack-profile:grpc-microservice-mesh·StackProfilegRPC Microservice Mesh Stack (Go, gRPC, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Prometheus)
- stack-profile:service-mesh·StackProfileService Mesh (Istio, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
- stack-profile:chaos-engineering·StackProfileChaos Engineering (Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, Go, OpenTelemetry)
tool_used_by5
- tool:honeycomb·ToolHoneycomb
- tool:jaeger·ToolJaeger
- tool:zipkin·ToolZipkin
- tool:opentelemetry·ToolOpenTelemetry
- tool:tempo·ToolGrafana Tempo
used_for1
- tool:honeycomb·ToolHoneycomb