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In order to improve observability of the HTTP request processing (in EVE and possibly is other projects written in Go as well), a new Golang package nettrace was developed. The idea was to hook into Golang's HTTP client and record a summary of all important operations performed at different network layers of the HTTP request processing, which, when combined, provide a clear picture of what was happening and in what order behind the scenes. When a request fails, it should be much easier to backtrace to its root cause. We decided to call this process "network tracing" and the output "network trace" (taking some inspiration from the trace package).
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