Control plane systems tracing and debugging – towards implementation

Reasoning about, and debugging, hierarchical control plane systems is hard. Moreover, OpenTracing, the industry adopted tracing model, has problems with tracing activities in presence of coalescing effects, which materialize, among others, in cloud platforms and build systems. In our earlier work we have proposed a novel approach to distributed systems tracing, based on an extension of OpenTracing. The aim of this contribution is to outline how the proposed approach can be implemented.