They’re trying—and I am rooting for them—but from the outside it seems piecemeal and scattered, like a side project that is nobody’s real priority. Meanwhile, other initiatives have so much movement as to be unfollowable: Zipkin! No, Jaeger! No, OpenTracing! No, OpenCensus! No, OpenTelemetry!
I am beginning to doubt that we will ever have a standard for distributed tracing.
And Jaeger has always been on top of OpenTracing. So I guess there's more unity than it seems.
From the inside, it’s felt like steadily rolling up a larger and larger katamari ball, if you remember that game.
Until then, where is the best place to look for updates?
There's a discussion about "correlation context" inside of this W3C group called , which maps to what you're describing. It'd be worth reaching out to Sergey (one of the other co-chairs) if you want to find out more.
Source: Working on distributed tracing at Twilio and Stitch Fix
