VIDEO / Observability / Queues
Tracing Background Jobs
Following asynchronous work across queues, retries, workers, and downstream calls.
ObservabilityQueuesOpenTelemetry
- DURATION
- 14:52
- PUBLISHED
- Jul 22, 2026
- CHAPTERS
- 4
- TOPICS
- Observability · Queues · OpenTelemetry
VIDEO / CHAPTERS
Inside this explanation
- 00:00The broken trace
- 02:44Propagating context
- 07:18Retries and links
- 11:24Operator workflow
Across the queue
Trace context must be carried in message metadata and restored by the worker without treating a retry as a brand-new story.
- Producer span
- Queue delay
- Consumer span
- Attempt attributes
Debugging from one ID
The finished trace connects the incoming request, queued work, retries, and downstream effects under one searchable operation.