Distributed Tracing and Performance Monitoring in CockroachDB

Distributed Tracing and Performance Monitoring in CockroachDB is a method of monitoring application performance by tracing the path of a query to identify issues that could be impacting application performance. It has been implemented in CockroachDB 20.1, following the open tracing standard. Companies like Lightstep are leading the way to simplify observability analysis for complex environments. Distributed Tracing in CockroachDB vs Lightstep differs as CockroachDB implements the open tracing standard and can use tools like Jaeger, Zipkin, and Lightstep to trace transactions within CockroachDB. A demo video is available where Senior Product Manager Piyush Singh demonstrates how to troubleshoot queries directly in the Admin UI using distributed tracing.