Distributed Tracing is used to track the flow of a request as it is

processed by different microservices in a system.

▪ Different microservices are interacting and identify issues or

bottlenecks and troubleshooting issues in the system.

▪ OpenTelemetry is an open-source project that provides a set of

APIs for collecting and exporting telemetry data; traces,

metrics, and logs.

▪ Zipkin is a distributed tracing system that collects and stores

trace data from microservices, provides a web UI for viewing and

analyzing trace data.

▪ To use OpenTelemetry with Zipkin for microservices distributed

tracing, OpenTelemetry SDK would be integrated.

▪ Allows to collect trace data as requests flow through the system,

and send data to a Zipkin server for storage and visualization.

https://www.baeldung.com/tracing-services-with-zipkin