Explore the fundamentals and importance of distributed tracing in this 40-minute CNCF webinar. Discover how tracing connects customer experiences to backend services, learn about the OpenTelemetry specifications and architecture, and understand how to tailor traces to your organization's needs. Delve into microservice architectures, trace visualization, and the integration of logs in distributed systems. Examine the components, specifications, and reference architecture of OpenTelemetry, including its tracing and semantic conventions. Gain insights into evidence-based debugging, automatic trace implementation, and problem-solving strategies. Learn to ask critical questions about your organization's observability needs and explore the roadmap for effective tracing implementation.