Distributed Tracing and Log Aggregation
Trace, log, and correlate requests through the real TaskFlow backend with Jaeger, OpenTelemetry, Loki, and Grafana.
Lab Overview
🛠Lab from the Platform Engineering Bootcamp. Used in Week 17. Bootcamp landing page: https://academy.tekanaid.com/bootcamps/platform-engineering-bootcamp Parent course(s):
- Week 17: Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus & Grafana (slug: monitoring-observability-prometheus-grafana)
Instrument the real TaskFlow backend with OpenTelemetry, collect distributed traces in Jaeger, aggregate structured logs in Loki, correlate a log line to its trace by trace ID, and wire everything together in Grafana for unified observability.
What You'll Learn
Deploy Jaeger and instrument a FastAPI service with OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation
Add custom spans and attributes to application handler code
Aggregate structured application logs with Loki and Grafana Alloy
Correlate a log line to its distributed trace using an injected trace ID
Unify traces and logs in Grafana with data sources and derived fields
Prerequisites
Lab 17.1 (Prometheus Metrics Collection) completed
Working knowledge of Kubernetes, kubectl, and Helm
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