Limitations of Process Tracing
Process tracing is a wonderful technical solution to debug performance issues at scale and in production. However, it can answer neither customer nor support questions, like “Why is the order not processed?” Story time A couple of months ago, the almighty tracing tooling was added to your application to solve all the problems of observability. Data from the auto instrumented libraries like OpenTelemetry, ElasticAPM, etc. is flowing in. And in a couple code places, some extra metadata is added to the spans to make the traces more informative....