KCNA Cloud Native Observability Practice Question
Which TWO of the following tools are commonly used for distributed tracing in cloud-native environments? (Select two.)
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Zipkin
Jaeger and Zipkin are popular open-source distributed tracing systems.
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Zipkin
Why this is correct
Zipkin is a distributed tracing system.
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Grafana
Why it's wrong here
Grafana is for visualization of metrics and logs.
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Jaeger
Why this is correct
Jaeger is a distributed tracing system.
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Fluentd
Why it's wrong here
Fluentd is for log collection.
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Prometheus
Why it's wrong here
Prometheus is for metrics.
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