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Mermaid Gantt diagrams for displaying distributed traces in Markdown (2023)


TIL: Mermaid Gantt diagrams are great for displaying distributed traces in Markdown 2023/ 03/31 Tagged til jekyll mermaidjs opentelemetry tracing Today I noticed via a tweet by @mitsuhiko that Mermaid Gantt diagrams are great for displaying distributed trace information like what you’d get from JaegerUI. I’ve been working with OpenTelemetry a fair bit recently and, in recent projects, I’ve been including screenshots of JaegerUI whenever I need to show a distributed trace in my documentation.

Today I noticed via a tweet by@mitsuhiko that Mermaid Gantt diagrams are great for displaying distributed trace information like what you’d get from JaegerUI. The tweet I mentioned previously shows code for a Gantt diagrams of a simple trace: Separate each service into its own section Visually distinguish spans using tags like:crit,:done which apply styling by default

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