KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2024

gRPC is often chosen for its high-performance communication, making it crucial to minimize latency. Distributed tracing helps identify and diagnose latency bottlenecks in gRPC calls, ensuring that the performance benefits of gRPC are fully realized. Setting up tracing from scratch for gRPC applications is complex and warrants significant maintenance overhead. Moreover, there is not much literature on how to do it properly, resulting in bespoke and suboptimal solutions. In this talk, Purnesh Dixit from the gRPC team will talk about the best practices for utilizing distributed tracing effectively in gRPC environments by configuring the new OpenTelemetry plug-in, created by the gRPC team in google.