alternatives.md

Alternative packages

• CorrelationId by Steve Gordon.
• Correlate by Martijn Bodeman.
• AspNet.CorrelationIdGenerator by Mark Gossa.

Distributed tracing

• "Improvements in .NET Core 3.0 for troubleshooting and monitoring distributed apps" by Sergey Kanzhelev (@SergeyKanzhelev)
• "Building End-to-End Diagnostics and Tracing: Trace Context" by Jimmy Bogard (@jbogard)

Advanced tracing / further reading

Correlator is designed to solve simple scenario with reading and writing correlation ID from/to HTTP headers. If you are looking for more advanced/distributed tracing, consider looking at:

• OpenTelemetry
• OpenTracing
• Zipkin
• Jaeger