KCNA Cloud Native Observability Practice Question
Which tool is primarily used for distributed tracing in cloud native environments?
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Jaeger
Jaeger is a popular open-source distributed tracing system.
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Grafana
Why it's wrong here
Grafana is for visualization.
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Fluentd
Why it's wrong here
Fluentd is a log aggregator.
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Jaeger
Why this is correct
Jaeger is a distributed tracing tool.
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Prometheus
Why it's wrong here
Prometheus is for metrics.
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