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Setting up the OpenTelemetry 'Astronomy Shop' demo on your local machine is easy, but the real adventure begins when you move it to a public GKE cluster with a custom domain, HTTPS, and proper routing

Introduction Distributed tracing helps understand how services behave when requests travel through multiple microservices. Tools like Jaeger are very useful, but they can also consume significant memory and CPU resources. This becomes especially noti...

In my last article, I wrote about monitoring using Grafana and Prometheus. Today I would like to add tracing to the mix. There are three types of data when it comes to monitoring: Logging Metrics Tracing We already have the first two types of da...
