Enhancing Asynchronous Transaction Monitoring: Implementing Distributed Tracing in Apache Camel Applications with OpenTelemetry
1 Introduction
In today’s dynamic landscape, Distributed Tracing has emerged as an indispensable practice. It helps to understand what is under the hood of distributed transactions, providing answers to pivotal questions: What comprises these diverse requests? What contextual information accompanies them? How extensive is their duration?
Since the introduction of Google’s Dapper, a plethora of tracing solutions has flooded the scene. Among them, OpenTelemetry has risen as the frontrunner. Other alternatives such as Elastic APM and DynaTrace are also available.