Opentelemetry provides vendor neutral standards and implementations to generate, collect, and export tracing data.
A Context is a propagation mechanism which carries execution-scoped values across API boundaries and between logically associated execution units. Cross-cutting concerns access their data in-process using the same shared Context object.
Context propagation is required when the tracing needs to cross process or service boundaries. Common ways to propagate the context is using W3C Trace Context or Zipkin B3 headers, while to inject the context is, for example, http headers or metadata fields in event messages.
Each field is treated as an integer and has its value printed as a
zero-filled hexadecimal digit string with the most significant
digit first. The hexadecimal values "a" through "f" are output as
lower case characters and are case insensitive on input.