Modern microservices applications generate complex, distributed transactions that span multiple services, protocols, and runtimes. OpenTelemetry has emerged as the de facto standard for capturing these traces, but extracting value from them depends greatly on how they're visualized and analyzed. Understanding how these distributed requests flow through your system is crucial for maintaining performance and reliability, and the real challenge isn't collecting traces, it's making sense of them.
Every digital transaction leaves a trail. The challenge isn’t in collecting that trail, it’s in making sense of it. OpenTelemetry gives us spans and traces, but without ...