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Re:AWS X-Ray – Distributed Tracing System by DenisM on Thursday December 01, 2016 @05:14PM (#13084067)
> difference between something that's pure distributed tracing (this) and something that does metrics/monitoring as well (TraceView, New Relic, ...)

I don't see the distinction you're making, as neither seems to record all traces for accurate audit. Am I missing it?

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Re:AWS X-Ray – Distributed Tracing System by dkuebric on Thursday December 01, 2016 @05:26PM (#13084148)
I was speaking to a more general monitoring approach where you might want to know p99 latency, request volume, error rate, etc, for each service to use in alerting and trending. This is a common use-case for application monitoring that isn't addressed well by a pure tracing approach.

If you're looking specifically for the 100% audit trail case, I'd look at DynaTrace or potentially Instana.

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