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Monitoring Distributed Applications with OpenTelemetry and Jaeger: Finding Performance Bottlenecks Through Distributed Traces
Prometheus can tell you your system is slow, but finding which service in a microservices chain is the actual bottleneck requires distributed tracing. This guide walks through setting up OpenTelemetry and Jaeger, instrumenting a Python application, and reading traces to diagnose performance issues — based on real-world experience.