Michael Haberman CTO @ Aspecto Tracing and observability are becoming very popular as microservices are getting more and more complex. The idea behind it is the fact that microservices are distributed and in order to better understand our architecture and to be able to troubleshoot production issues faster, we need to track how requests are populated throughout the system. By monitoring the interactions between the different services we are able to overcome some of the native complexity of microservices. In this talk, we will review the concept of tracing by examining the opensource project OpenTelemetry and specifically its node.js version. We will also cover how to utilize opensource solutions, along with commercial products, to get the most out of tracing data OpenTelemetry collects. Other talks at this conference 🚀🪐 https://www.conf42.com​/js2021 — 0:00 Intro 0:26 Talk