Service mesh technologies decouple application logic from service infrastructure concerns. This separation enables organizations to converge on standard patterns of observability making it easier for them to consume metrics, logs, and most excitingly (ok, we’re biased) distributed tracing across all their services! In this post, we’ll introduce a LightStep [x]PM integration we built for Istio and show you how it works with an example application that’s deployed with Istio. This integration makes it faster and easier to get started with distributed tracing at scale. If this is your first time hearing about Istio, Envoy, or Service Mesh, check out the Istio website.
Distributed Tracing With Istio
Istio 1.x supports distributed tracing via two mechanisms: