Launch HN: Odigos (YC W23) – Instant distributed tracing for Kubernetes clusters

Hi HN! We’re Eden and Ari, co-founders of Odigos ( https://github.com/keyval-dev/odigos ). Odigos is an open-source project that lets you instantly generate distributed traces for your applications. It works alongside existing monitoring tools and does not require any code changes. Our earlier experiences with monitoring tools were frustrating. Monitoring a distributed system with multiple microservices, we found ourselves spending way too much time trying to locate the specific microservice that was at the root of a problem. For example, we once spent hours debugging an application which we suspected was causing high latency, only to find out that the actual problem was rooted in a completely different application Then we learned about distributed tracing, which solves exactly this problem. Unlike metrics or logs that capture a data point in time in a single application, a distributed trace follows a request as it propagates through a distributed environment by tag