What tasks does distributed tracing solve?

Distributed tracing solves the following tasks:

• Monitoring and debugging distributed systems: Allows tracking the request path through multiple services, identifying bottlenecks and errors in the execution flow.
• Performance analysis: Helps determine which services or components cause delays and optimize their operation.
• Dependency visualization: Builds a map of service interactions within the system, simplifying understanding of its structure and data flows.
• Post-mortem incident analysis: Provides detailed information about request execution during failures, helping to quickly identify the cause of the problem.
• Impact assessment of changes: Allows seeing how new service versions or configuration changes affect overall system performance.
• Detection of "blind spots": Identifies areas of the system where monitoring or logging is insufficient.