1 min readAug 25, 2019
The short answer is “yes, you can”.
And here is the long answer. In order to trace requests that happen across your services you’ll have to do the following:
- Use cls-rtracer in each of your services. Note that configuration options called `useHeader` and `headerName` can help you with that by reading request id from HTTP request headers (if it’s there, of course).
- Send request id (`rTracer.id()`) as a HTTP header in all requests that are sent to downstream services.
- Configure your services to stream their logs into a log collector service, like Logstash.
Once everything above is done, you’ll have shared request id as a part of collected logs.