8.4 Distributed Tracing

When operating Microservices in production it can be challenging to troubleshoot interactions between Microservices in a distributed architecture.

To solve this problem a way to visualize interactions between Microservices in a distributed manner can be critical. Currently, there are various distributed tracing solutions, the most popular of which are Zipkin and Jaeger both of which provide different levels of support for the Open Tracing API.

Micronaut features integration with both Zipkin and Jaeger (via the Open Tracing API).

To enable tracing you should add the tracing module to your build.gradle or pom.xml file:

  1. implementation("io.micronaut:micronaut-tracing")
  1. <dependency>
  2.     <groupId>io.micronaut</groupId>
  3.     <artifactId>micronaut-tracing</artifactId>
  4. </dependency>