Structured Log Correlation Without Trace Context Propagation: The Hidden Gap in Go Microservice Observability

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The Problem Nobody Talks About Most observability stacks are designed assuming trace context propagates cleanly end-to-end. In practice, it often doesn't. A background goroutine fires without inheriting the parent context. A queue consumer reconstructs a request from raw bytes with no W3C traceparent header. A third-party SDK calls your callback with a fresh context.Background().

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