#"opentelemetry"

Distributed Tracing: Stop Guessing Why Your API Takes 4 Seconds 🔍⏱️

Your checkout API takes 4 seconds. CloudWatch says it's fine. Your logs say nothing. Your users are leaving. After spending 6 hours doing the distributed systems equivalent of 'have you tried turning it off and on again', I finally added OpenTelemetry. The culprit? One innocent-looking N+1 query buried inside a third microservice. Here's how distributed tracing saves your sanity.