Distributed Tracing
Find Performance Bottlenecks Across Services
- Deploy Tempo for distributed tracing across microservices
- Identify performance bottlenecks by analyzing request traces
- Build service dependency graphs to understand microservice relationships
Course curriculum
Section 1 – Welcome 1 lesson
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Welcome to Tempo Course
Section 2 – Distributed Tracing Implementation 1 lesson
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Distributed Tracing Implementation
Section 3 – Clean Up 1 lesson
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Clean Up
Course description
Figure out why requests are slow when they touch 10 different microservices. You'll deploy distributed tracing with Tempo, Alloy, and Grafana to follow every request through your entire system and find exactly where the bottlenecks are.
This course shows you how to set up Tempo on Kubernetes, configure Alloy for telemetry collection, and visualize traces in Grafana. You'll build service dependency graphs that map how your microservices talk to each other and identify which operations are killing your performance.
Tracing is essential for microservices debugging. Learn how to answer "why is this slow?" in seconds instead of hours.