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[Distributed Tracing]

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Distributed Tracing.md

Distributed Tracing is the process of tracking and analyzing what happens to a request (transaction) across all services it touches.

• Transaction: request
• Trace ID: unique request identifier
• Trace: entire transaction (across all services)
• Span: logical chunk of work in a given ‘Trace’

Spans have parent-child relationships. A parent can have multiple children. The first span is the “root span”. Each span has an ID and a pointer to its parent span ID.

Note: this information was found on the Nike engineering blog