What is Context Propagation in Distributed Tracing?

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  • Popular open standards for application instrumentation(the process of enabling application code to generate trace data) like OpenTelemetry follow the W3C Trace Context specification.

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  • OpenTelemetry provides libraries to take care of your application instrumentation. You need a tracing backend to store, analyze and visualize the generated trace data by OpenTelemetry. SigNoz is an open-source distributed tracing tool built natively to support OpenTelemetry. You can check out its GitHub repo.

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  • World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has recommendations on the format of trace contexts. The aim is to develop a standardized format of passing trace context over standard protocols like HTTP. It saves a lot of time in distributed tracing implementation and ensures interoperability between various tracing tools.

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