2 years ago

Category: Data

The rise in digital transformation over the past few years means that more and more companies are adopting cloud native technologies. Traditional debugging methods, such as step-by-step debugging, are practically impossible to use in cloud native environments. There is never a single server to connect to and debug, since the environments are dynamic, and containers, pods and serverless functions spin up and down on the fly.

Tracing, a complement to logging and monitoring, is now considered one of the foundations of observability.

This is the ability to not just view the internal state of the application, but also to fully understand its structure and function.