Recording Program's Execution
Learn about tracing for a single and multiple programs in distributed systems.
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Tracing refers to the particular use of logging to record information about a program’s execution, used for troubleshooting or diagnostic purposes.
Achieving tracing
We can achieve tracing in its simplest form by associating every request to the program with a unique identifier and recording logs for the most important operations of the program alongside the request identifier.
In this way, when we try to diagnose a specific customer issue, the logs can easily be filtered down to only include a chronologically ordered list of operation logs of ...