AN ANALYSIS OF A DISTRIBUTED TRACING SYSTEMS EFFECT ON PERFORMANCE Jaeger and OpenTracing API

Abstract: With micro-services and other service oriented architectures gaining more popularity every day, debugging tools speci€cally made for service oriented architectures are also becoming more common. Distributed tracing systems are tools that can be used to debug latency and provide a bett‹er understanding about how a systems services communicates with each other among other helpful things. However, this is not a tool without drawbacks. Developers must implement the distributed tracing tools speci€ed API into their micro-service system to be able to use these distributed tracing tools. ‘This can have an impact on the microservice system’s performance, but how much of an impact does implementing a distributed tracing tool have on a micro-service system’s performance?