Lexicon

Trace Context Propagation

Kind: constraint

Layer: Observability

Record: lexicon:trace-context-propagation

Canonical: Lexicon

The requirement that trace identifiers be propagated across every hop of a distributed request.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Overhead/Sampling and before Error-Budget Decisions.

Category

  • Observability / Auditability / Traceability

Required by

  • Distributed Tracing

Linked from

  • Observability / Auditability / Traceability