AWS X-Ray – Distributed Tracing System
If you're interested in distributed system tracing there's a lot going on.<p>As a starting point, I would recommend reading Google's paper on their project "Dapper." [1] It's essentially the core of most distributed tracing systems. At least those I've encountered.<p>There's a lot of tooling out there that take their cues from Dapper. I've recently been looking into integrating OpenZipkin[2] with our systems. I see at as a more viable alternative (no tie in!) to Yet Another Propriety Thing in AWS (YAPTA). There's other as well, like AppDash.<p>Recently there has been a push towards an open-standard for the collection side called OpenTracing[3]. I came across it when investigating LightStep[4]. Ideally that means no vendor lock-in, which of course has lots of knock-on effects.<p>If you know of any, I'd love to be pointed in the direction of _different_ and not just divergent techniques.<p>[1]: <a href="http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/papers/dapper-2010-1.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...</a><p>[2]: <a href="http://zipkin.io" rel="nofollow">http://zipkin.io</a><p>[3]: <a href="http://opentracing.io" rel="nofollow">http://opentracing.io</a><p>[4]: <a href="http://lightstep.com" rel="nofollow">http://lightstep.com</a> - Impressive team behind this.