Distributed-tracing

Flame graphs explained: how to read them, what they reveal about CPU and latency, and how continuous profiling with OpenTelemetry generates them.

Discover the best distributed tracing tools for microservices in 2026. Compare features, benefits, and use cases to optimize your application performance.

Spans in distributed tracing: what a span is, span context, attributes, events, and links in OpenTelemetry, and how spans form a trace. With examples.

Distributed tracing with Jaeger: set up Jaeger for OpenTelemetry traces, understand Jaeger v2 on the OTel Collector, and when an OTLP-native backend fits.

Context propagation in distributed tracing: what it is, why traces need it to span services, and how trace context flows across service boundaries.

Find N+1 query problems with distributed tracing: spot repeated database spans in a trace, diagnose the cause, and fix the query pattern in SigNoz.

OpenTelemetry tracing: how the tracing signal works (tracers, spans, context propagation, samplers, exporters) and how to send traces over OTLP to SigNoz.

APM vs distributed tracing in 2026: tracing is a technique within APM, not a rival. See how they fit together, when to use each, and where SigNoz fits.

Understand OpenTelemetry architecture - signals, context and propagators, the API and SDK, and the Collector's receivers, processors, and exporters.

Learn how to implement OpenTelemetry with Nginx for enhanced observability. This guide covers setup, configuration, and best practices for effective monitoring.

Modern digital organizations have rapidly adopted microservices-based architecture for their applications. But microservices architecture is complex, and troubleshooting performance issues is challenging. Making your microservices observable with distributed tracing is critical to solve...

Microservices architecture allows technology companies to build application services around business capabilities. It enables rapid development and also boosts developer productivity. But it also introduces complexity. Distributed tracing is the...

Distributed tracing provides insights into how a particular service is performing as part of the whole in a distributed system. In this article, we will implement distributed tracing for a Java application based on microservices architecture.

Distributed tracing is a method of tracking application requests as they flow from front-end devices to back-end services and databases in a distributed system. Using OpenTelemetry APIs and SDKs, you can implement distributed tracing in your software systems....

Jaeger is a popular open-source tool used for distributed tracing in a microservice architecture. In a microservice architecture, a user request or transaction can travel across hundreds of services before serving what a user wants.

Distributed tracing provides insights into how a particular service is performing as part of the whole in a distributed system. In this article, we will implement distributed tracing for a nodejs application based on microservices architecture.

With microservices becoming popular, tracing is increasingly more important in debugging production software. In this post, we take you through a step by step guide on setting up Jaeger over Kubernetes with Cassandra storage.