Distributed Tracing has been around for a while, but was always quite niche, reserved for the Netflix and Amazon's of the world. With your company likely looking more at Microservices as a path forward to scale and modernisation, you will almost certainly start to think about debugging and monitoring this in production.

We'll walk through what distributed tracing is, how it relates to Observability (o11y), and then run through some examples of how to get started with it in your .NETapplications.

Finally, we'll demo how to visualise the data, from .NET Aspire, to Jaegar.

This is NOT a vendor talk, however, some of the demos will use the Honeycomb backend to visual the output. The focus is on the tooling and usecases.