Overall Objectives

Compiled Learning Objectives

Distributed Tracing

• Contrast distributed tracing and metrics.
• Explain how distributed tracing helps understand a request flow through several systems.

Using Honeycomb

• Publish trace spans to Honeycomb.
• View an assembled trace in Honeycomb.
• Identify outliers in Honeycomb.

Distributed Tracing in Kafka

• Instrument a producer and consumer with OTel.
• Interpret a trace in Honeycomb across producer and consumer.
• Identify outliers in Honeycomb.