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System Design
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What is the purpose of "request tracing" (distributed tracing) in a microservices system?
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The correct answer is A) To track a single request as it flows across multiple services, helping identify latency bottlenecks and failures in complex distributed call chains
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Correct Answer
To track a single request as it flows across multiple services, helping identify latency bottlenecks and failures in complex distributed call chains
Explanation
Tools like Jaeger or Zipkin propagate a trace ID across service calls, allowing engineers to visualize the full path and timing of a request through a distributed system to pinpoint where issues occur.
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