Tracing is an immensely powerful tool that also comes with a cost. Every trace is (although small) some overhead to process and manage. You may be excited to add tracing to every method in your application, or to build it into a library that attaches tracing and span creation to every method call. This can be done, and you will quickly find your infrastructure overwhelmed with trace information.
Tracing is also a tool that has the most benefit when tied directly to the responsibility of running the code. Be very aware that as you add tracing, you are also adding a lot of ancillary processing needed to capture, store, and query the data created by the traces.
A good way to handle the balancing act of the ...
