Tracing
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Why Tracing is required
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As on-the-ground microservice practitioners are quickly realizing, the majority of operational 
problems that arise when moving to a distributed architecture are ultimately grounded in two 
areas: networking and observability. It is simply an orders of magnitude larger problem to network 
and debug a set of intertwined distributed services versus a single monolithic application.

What Tracing addresses
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- Distributed transaction monitoring
- Performance and latency optimization
- Root cause analysis
- Service dependency analysis
- Distributed context propagation

Implementation
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Implementation of tracing (Opentracing - Jaegar) can be found in,

https://gitlab.ebi.ac.uk/soumyadip/opentracing-sample-python/

Gitlab Integration
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Gitlab Integration information can be found at,

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/operations/tracing.html