week2.md

Week 2 — Distributed Tracing

Tasks to Complete

• MY NOTES
  ✅ Distributed Tracing
  ✅ Instrument XRay
  ✅ CloudWatch Logs
  ✅ Observability Security Considerations
  ✅ Observability Spending Considerations
  

MY NOTES

Distributed Tracing

• AWS Xray is same as honeycomb. But honeycomb is easier

• application to be instrumented

  • login to honeycomb [ui.honeycomb.io]
  • environemnt is like dev, production. Create one for bootcamp
  • API creates u create determine which environment u land in
  • Set the API key

  gp env HONEYCOMB_API_KEY="JpMuOqYDv4hJRJiTm8TaBB"

  check with

  env | grep honeycomb

  -Set Service name

  export HONEYCOMB_SERVICE_NAME="Cruddur"
  gp env HONEYCOMB_SERVICE_NAME="Cruddur"

  or this can be set in docker-compose file to specifically mention a service name for each part of the project in environemnt

  OTEL_SERVIVCE_NAME: