Application Tracing Troubleshooting
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In the dynamic world of software development and troubleshooting, application tracing plays a vital role in diagnosing and optimizing the performance of software applications. It serves as a powerful technique to gain insights into the inner workings of an application, identify bottlenecks, and debug issues.
The Benefits of Application Tracing
Tracing helps software teams understand how applications behave in real world. They easily find any issues and can improve the performance of applications. Here are some key benefits of application tracing:
The Benefits of Application Tracing
Monitoring tools usually provide overall information about system health, whereas tracing can provide a more detailed view of individual actions. Tracing can reveal not only that there is a problem but also precisely where it exists. This makes tracing highly effective and useful for distributed systems where issues can span multiple services or micro-services.
Diagnose the root causes
Tracing links individual requests or transactions with specific code paths, user actions or service interactions. This contextual analysis helps to understand how different parts of an application affect each other and diagnose the root causes of an issue.
Prioritize fixes based on user impact
Tracing often provides insights into how backend issues affect the user experience. Traditional monitoring tools do not always connect system metrics to user experience outcomes. With tracing development teams can prioritize bug fixes based on user impact.
The Practical Implementation - Materials & Requirements
You can enable tracing in EKS. You should deploy an ADOT collector which should be configured for tracing.
receivers:
otlp:
protocols:
grpc:
endpoint: 0.0.0.0:4317
http:
endpoint: 0.0.0.0:4318
processors:
filter/spans:
spans:
exclude:
match_type: regexp
attributes:
- key: environment
value: dev
memory_limiter:
limit_mib: 100
check_interval: 5s
exporters:
logging:
loglevel: debug
awsxray:
region: "${region}"
service:
pipelines:
traces/to-aws-xray:
receivers: [otlp]
processors: ["memory_limiter","filter/spans"]
exporters: ["awsxray","logging"] tip
In the dynamic world of software development and troubleshooting, application tracing plays a vital role in diagnosing and optimizing the performance of software applications. It serves as a powerful technique to gain insights into the inner workings of an application, identify bottlenecks, and debug issues.
