Cloud Architecture

Distributed Tracing with OpenTelemetry & X-Ray

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Distributed tracing diagram showing API Gateway passing trace headers to Order Service, Payment Service, and ADOT collector exporting to AWS X-Ray service map.
Distributed tracing diagram showing API Gateway passing trace headers to Order Service, Payment Service, and ADOT collector exporting to AWS X-Ray service map.
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What it shows

  • OpenTelemetry standardizes telemetry collection without vendor lock-in
  • W3C tracecontext headers propagate trace IDs across asynchronous hops
  • AWS X-Ray builds end-to-end service maps to reveal bottlenecks

The takeaway

Propagate W3C trace headers through OpenTelemetry to pinpoint latency bottlenecks across microservices.

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