trace-context cover page
The specifications below belong to the series 'trace-context'
Trace Context Level 2
Candidate Recommendation Draft - history
- Tags
- Performance
- Deliverers
- Distributed Tracing Working Group
This specification defines standard HTTP headers and a value format to propagate context information that enables distributed tracing scenarios. The specification standardizes how context information is sent and modified between services. Context information uniquely identifies individual requests in a distributed system and also defines a means to add and propagate provider-specific context information.
Trace Context
Recommendation - history
- Tags
- Performance
- Deliverers
- Distributed Tracing Working Group
Distributed tracing is a set of tools and practices to monitor the health and reliability of a distributed application. A distributed application is an application that consists of multiple components that are deployed and operated separately. It is also known as micro-service.