Testing and Debugging in Production with Distributed Tracing

At a recent LaunchDarkly Meetup, the focus was on monitoring and observability while testing in production. Priyanka Sharma from LightStep discussed how distributed tracing is an essential tool for testing in production due to the increasing complexity of software systems with CI/CD and microservices. Tracing helps teams understand their systems better and identify responses when testing in production. OpenTracing, a vendor-neutral open standard for distributed tracing, allows developers to instrument existing code without committing to an implementation from the start. It enables users to switch between different tracers and visualization systems easily.