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Tracing requests across 30 regions with OpenTelemetry

Distributed tracing across a 30-region fleet: standardising on OpenTelemetry collectors and a central Tempo backend.

Mia Chen · 1 min read
Tracing requests across 30 regions with OpenTelemetry

Distributed tracing across a 30-region fleet: standardising on OpenTelemetry collectors and a central Tempo backend.

Mia Chen
WRITTEN BY Mia Chen Security Engineer · Platform Security

Mia works on platform security and container isolation at Stratum, hardening the scheduler that runs 50 million deployments. She thinks about blast radius for a living.

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