Tracing: Why Logs Aren’t Enough to Debug Your Microservices

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Not to mention how frustrating it is to search through endless logs across multiple services and the time it takes them.

Distributed tracing can help your developers with tracking requests across services (but more on that later).

This is unique for distributed tracing and saves your team a lot of time and headaches, by not restricting you to one language or certain apps.

Here are the three main use cases in which distributed tracing can be helpful for you and your team.

You can use distributed tracing not only for identifying why a problem occurred, but also to avoid problems with ongoing observability and tracking.

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