Tracing a Message Through the Chassis
How Convey stitched one Jaeger trace across HTTP, a command handler and a RabbitMQ hop years before OpenTelemetry - and the six-line catch block in its tracing plugin that can silently eat your failures.
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Observability With Amnesia
Pacco traces every request, scrapes every service every five seconds and ships every log line to Seq - then forgets all of it on docker-compose down, because the telemetry stores are the containers whose volume blocks are commented out. The wiring is exemplary; the memory is the finding.
The Observability Stack of 2018
DShop wires Serilog, App.Metrics and Jaeger through one shared kernel, propagates a trace span on the message envelope, and hangs its Consul health check on an endpoint no controller defines. A tour of pre-OpenTelemetry observability.