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How do you trace a request across Service A -> Service B -> Service C?

Tests whether you know this requires a tracing framework (Sleuth/Micrometer Tracing, Zipkin, Jaeger) that creates spans per hop under one trace, rather than trying to stitch together independent service logs after the fact.

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