OpenTelemetry (OTel) tracing relies on context being propagated from one component in an application stack to another. While IBM MQ does have some ability to carry that context with messages, the OTel SDK design does not make that flow automatic. This post shows how we can extract the context for some applications, and then use OTel context propagation techniques to improve the observability of applications using MQ.
In particular in this post, I’ll talk about applications using MQ with the Node.js and Go interfaces.
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