Learning Full-stack Observability: Tracing

(Originally published on Medium, Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay) Introduction Distributed Tracing serves the purpose of connecting network calls across various services within an organization. In my case, that means I can: From Android: see the time taken for the request to get sent from the device From Spring Boot: see the potential error logs a certain user may have From the database: see how much time is spent to determine the efficiency of my queries Traces are made of spans, and spans h