Computer Science · Distributed Systems
A topic within Distributed Systems, itself one of 13 topics in that field and part of Computer Science.
3 works
Benjamin H. Sigelman et al.
Shows how to trace a request across hundreds of services with low overhead, and is the ancestor of every tracing tool since.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Notes on this copyJonathan Mace, Ryan Roelke & Rodrigo Fonseca
Lets operators define new cross-component metrics at runtime by piggybacking on causal tracing, instead of committing in advance to a fixed set of instrumented statistics.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Notes on this copyJonathan Kaldor et al.
Argues that raw trace collection is worthless without a pipeline for cleaning, aggregating and modelling it, and describes the system built to make traces answerable to arbitrary later questions.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Notes on this copy