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Have Splunk patented distributed tracing?

by StianOvrevage on 9/28/22, 5:57 PM with 1 comments

• by StianOvrevage on 9/28/22, 5:57 PM

  I'm not versed enough in "patent-talk" to conclude, but it seems to me that what this patent covers is basically your every day distributed tracing.

  There are also dozens of other patents and patent applications for what I would describe as "basic stuff":

  https://www.patentguru.com/inventor/agarwal-mayank