Tracing Overview

What is distributed tracing

Distributed tracing is a way to collect information about how the components of your applications work with one another to serve end-user request. Distributed-tracing data is collected by tracers, which are add-ons to your applications that collect the distributed tracing data and send them to a backend for processing, querying, storing alerting and visualizing.

The Transactions in Lumigo are generated from distributed-tracing data, as well as the System Map and the data can be queries via the Explore View.

Getting started with Lumigo distributed tracing

Lumigo has tracers for the following compute platforms:

• AWS Lambda, providing support for both no-code instrumentation and manual instrumentation

• Containerized applications, that is, pretty much anything you would run on a container orchestration platform like Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, any flavor of Kubernetes, etc.