Tracing the API calls in Your Helidon Application with Jaeger
While building applications that comprises of multiple microservices, it is essential to have a mechanism in place to collect and analyze the details of API calls, timing data needed to troubleshoot latency problems and logging error generated from API calls. Jaeger is one such solution and used for monitoring and troubleshooting application built following microservice based architecture with following capabilities: Distributed context propagation Distributed transaction monitoring Root cause analysis Service dependency analysis Performance / latency optimization Jaeger is hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as the 7th top-level project (graduated in October 2019). Eclipse MicroProfile, OpenTracing and Jaeger As there are multiple tracing solutions out there similar to Jaeger(such as Zipkin), it is really good to avoid vendor lock-in by having some standardization around APIs that work with different providers.The OpenTracing addresses this part of the p...