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Distributed Tracing: The Missing Piece in Observability Stacks
Distributed tracing provides a complete view of a request across services, pinpointing bottlenecks that logs and metrics miss. OpenTelemetry offers a minimal setup with auto-instrumentation covering 80% of needs. Custom spans handle the remaining business logic for full visibility.
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While tracing is powerful, the article glosses over the operational overhead of deploying and maintaining a tracing infrastructure at scale.
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