Whitepapers OpenTelemetry Observability Distributed Tracing

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Distributed Tracing (But Were Afraid to Ask)

Distributed tracing, in short, is a way to output a normalized set of structured logs from applications which include contextual information allowing developers to view an end-to-end request. In this whitepaper, Austin Parker, Director of Open Source at Honeycomb, teaches you:

• The history of tracing
• Standardizing on distributed tracing
• Where tracing is in 2025
• Why tracing is fundamental to OpenTelemetry
• How traces are made
• Unifying your telemetry with OpenTelemetry
• and more!

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