Overview
- Distributed tracing—collects latency data
- Detect latencies between components of distributed app
- Automatic with App Engine Standard, Cloud Functions and Cloud Run
- Instrument with App Engine Flex, Compute Engine, Kubernetes Engine and non-Google Cloud resources
- OpenTelemetry or OpenCensus libraries recommended
- Detect bottlenecks
- Automatic alerts for large changes in latency
- API available for any source
- Integrates with Zipkin
- Applications instrumented with Zipkin
- Telemetry sent to Cloud Trace for analysis